Perera

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a toponymic surname

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/peɾeɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Perera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 24K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 43as Pereira
  • ARArgentina1 in 914as Pereira

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Perera itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)

≈540,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
175 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 42 (inferred from the name graph)

Sri Lanka, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PereraLatin(measured from records)
เปเรร่าThai(measured from records)
പെരേരMalayalam(measured from records)
ΠερεραGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pereira in CH Switzerland.

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)

a toponymic surname

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Perera 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 Perera is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka#317≈540,000 est.≈1 in 42—Perera39
UY Uruguay#22178,815as Pereira1 in 4379KPerera50
AR Argentina—49,785as Pereira1 in 91450KPerera58
ES Spain#69636,678as Pereira1 in 1.4K37KPerera133
US United States—29,898as Pereira1 in 11K32KPerera175
CH Switzerland—11,630as Pereira1 in 72312KPereira6
CR Costa Rica#5239,389as Pereira1 in 5439.4KPerera29
BR Brazil—8,9961 in 24K9KPerera76

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: 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Perera is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Perera', Perērā, Pêrera, Pêrërå, Pèrërá

  • Sinhala surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Italy

    Also written Perera', පෙරේරා, Perērā, පෙරෙරා, Pererà

  • French surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Péréra, Pérèrä, Pèrèra, Peréra, Perêra

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Perērā, Pērērā

  • Hindi surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sri Lanka, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Perera', Pèŕèŕà, Perērā, Péréra, Pererà

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, Sri Lanka, Spain

    Also written Perêrâ

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, United States

    Also written Pêrera, Perērā

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Perera 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.

  • Amsterdam, Genova, Milano, Livorno, Bijeljina, Smyrna, Salonika, Sofia, Alexandria, Guatemala; pear tree

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Catalan, pear tree

    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)

1700180019002000José Nicolás de Azara, b. 1730Félix de Azara, b. 1742Domènec Balmanya, b. 1914Leon Perera, b. 1970Sasha Perera, b. 1979Franck Perera, b. 1984Ruymán Hernández, b. 1986Dinuka Karunaratne, b. 1987Angelo Perera, b. 1990

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)

FormalEstimado/a Perera,Dear Perera, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Perera,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 38 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Perera
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—9K#1,423
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—6.6K#822
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6.6K#822
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.6K#6,967
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.2K#7,801
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.9K#10,176
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—2.5K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—943—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—229#925
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024225#5,669
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Perera mean, and where does it come from?
a toponymic surname Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Perera?
A machine transcription gives /peɾeɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Perera?
In the etymology graph, Pereira is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Perera have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 540 thousand people named Perera in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perera.
How common is the name Perera?
In Brazil, the national register counted 8,996 people named Perera, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
How common is Perera compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Perera is the 317th most common surname of 20,196 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, “Perera” — the 317th most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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