Pére
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pére is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Occitan [Term?].
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 11K
- UYUruguay1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Perer in US United States, FR France, Pere in CO Colombia, DO Dominican Republic and Peré in UY Uruguay.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Occitan [Term?].
Sources 6
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pére counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 329 | Perer | 43 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Pere | 13 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Pere | 25 |
| US United States | 616 | 1 in 540K | 930 | Perer | 134 |
| FI Finland | 489 | 1 in 11K | 489 | — | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 255 | 1 in 13K | 255 | Peré | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pére is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In frp, alternative form of pâre (“father”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, father
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pére mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Occitan [Term?]. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Pére have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Pére in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perer.
- How common is the name Pére?
- In the United States, the national register counted 616 people named Pére in 2010, about 1 in 540 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pére?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A9reThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pére”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.