Person Family History

Americanized form (and a very rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Persson or Pehrsson (see Pehrson). German: patronymic from the personal name Peer Low German variant of Peter. English: variant of Parson.

French (mainly northeastern): from a shortened form of Perreçon, a pet form (with double diminutive suffix -eçon) of the personal name Pierre, French form of Peter.

Breton (also Le Person): nickname from person ‘parson, rector of a parish’.

Jewish (from Latvia and Belarus): either a variant of Berson or metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Pere, a pet form of Perl ‘pearl’ (compare Perel).