Perèira

surname · Latin script

Perèira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country. In France it is the 15th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From pera + -eira.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 2.1M
  • UYUruguay1 in 43

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.

Uruguay (measured from records)

78,815 people

Sources
354 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pereira in FR France, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 3 more.

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)

From pera + -eira.

Sources 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Perèira 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.

Where Perèira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UY Uruguay—78,8151 in 4379K——
AR Argentina—49,7851 in 91450KPereira1
ES Spain—36,6781 in 1.4K37KPereira53
US United States—29,8981 in 11K32KPereira177
IN India—13,2581 in 100K13KPereira36
CH Switzerland#61411,6301 in 72312KPereira40
CR Costa Rica—9,3891 in 5439.4K——
FR France#15≈33 est.≈1 in 2.1M5KPereira354

78,815 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Perèira under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Perèira mean, and where does it come from?
From pera + -eira. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 3 other sources.
In which country does Perèira have the most bearers?
In Uruguay, the national register counted about 79 thousand people named Perèira, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Perèira most common?
Perèira is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 43 people carrying it.
How common is the name Perèira?
In Uruguay, the national register counted 78,815 people named Perèira, about 1 in 43 residents.
How common is Perèira compared with other names?
In France, Perèira is the 15th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Perèira” — the 15th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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