Pere
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pʰɛɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pere is a name 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Perer in US United States, FR France 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 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pere 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)
Pere is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tuw-pro, bottom, floor
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In nap, alternative spelling of pede (“foot”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, by means...
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of per
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, third-person singular present of prati
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Peter II of Aragonb. 1174FRnot in their usual nameKing of Aragon from 1196 to 1213
- Peter III of Aragonb. 1239ESnot in their usual nameKing of Aragon and Valencia (1276–85); King of Sicily (1282–85)
- Peter IV of Aragonb. 1319ESnot in their usual nameking of Aragon
- Peter Claverb. 1580ESnot in their usual nameJesuit missionary
- Pedro, Prince of Brazilb. 1712PTnot in their usual namePrince of Brazil (1712-1714)
- Pere Domènech i Rourab. 1881ESCatalan architect (1881–1962)
- Peretb. 1935ESnot in their usual nameCatalan musician (1935–2014)
- Pere Ponceb. 1964ESSpanish actor
- Pere Aragonès i Garciab. 1982ESCatalan lawyer and politician (born 1982)
- Pere Milla Peñab. 1992ESSpanish footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 930 | #27,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 616 | #36,337 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 489 | #3,526 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 475 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 473 | #43,058 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 450 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 329 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 255 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 251 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 117 | #47,034 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #18,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23 | #47,034 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pere 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.
- How do you pronounce Pere?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɛɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pere have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Pere in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perer.
- How common is the name Pere?
- In the United States, the national register counted 616 people named Pere in 2010, about 1 in 540 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pere?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pereThe 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, “Pere”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.