Peress

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Lebanon, Iraq, São Paulo

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Peress is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 3.1M(measured from records)
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 83K
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 596K

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.

United States (measured from records)

109 people, 2010

Sources
113 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Lebanon, Iraq, São Paulo

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world(measured from records)

Peress 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 Peress is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1091 in 3.1M133Peress113
JM Jamaica≈34 est.≈1 in 83K—Peress1
NL Netherlands≈29 est.≈1 in 596K—Peress4
FR France≈29 est.≈1 in 2.3M1—1
CA Canada≈25 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Peress23
CH Switzerland101 in 840K10Peress6
IL Israel≈7 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Peress6

109 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Peress is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pèrèss

30 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)

Peress 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 Italian, redução dialetal alpina de Peresso

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Maltese, since

    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)

18801900192019401960Joseph Salim Peress, b. 1896Irving Peress, b. 1917Maurice Peress, b. 1930Gilles Peress, b. 1946

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)

FormalDear Peress,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Peress
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020133#132,523
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000110#139,757
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010109#150,452
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202410#60,931
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19419—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19515—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19814—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19714—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19613—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19013—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19911—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname 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 Peress mean, and where does it come from?
Lebanon, Iraq, São Paulo Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Peress?
A machine transcription gives /pɝəs/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Peress have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 109 people named Peress, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peress.
How common is the name Peress?
In the United States, the national register counted 109 people named Peress in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.

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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, “Peress”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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