Peris

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from OFr Piers, from Pierre; first attested Gilbert Perse 1198 P (Lo)

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

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

Peris is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 5.6K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 134K
  • HRCroatia1 in 14K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

8,948 people

Sources
145 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Periš in HR Croatia.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from OFr Piers, from Pierre; first attested Gilbert Perse 1198 P (Lo)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Peris 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 Peris is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#4088,9481 in 5.6K8.9KPeris145
BR Brazil—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 134K72Peris58
FR France—≈610 est.≈1 in 110K67Peris1
IT Italy—≈380 est.≈1 in 165K1Peris18
US United States—2991 in 1.1M380Peris64
HR Croatia—2921 in 14K292Periš25
PY Paraguay—≈90 est.≈1 in 80K—Peris12
UY Uruguay—281 in 121K28Peris4

8,948 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

Peris is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Spain, India

    Also written Peri'S

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Periš, Perís, Periş, Perïs, Péris

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Periş, Péris, Peri̲s, Periš, Perís

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Periš, Periş

46 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)

Peris is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, forma latinizada de Peri ou redução de Perissi

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Pietri

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of pereō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, A Welsh saint, St Peris.

    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)

16001700180019002000Miquel Baptista Gran, b. 1620Antonio García Peris, b. 1841José María Peris Polo, b. 1889Giancarlo Peris, b. 1941Nova Peris-Kneebone, b. 1971Sandra Cervera, b. 1985Mercedes Peris, b. 1985Ferrán Giner Peris, b. 1988Brooke Peris, b. 1993

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 Peris,Dear Peris, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Peris,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Peris
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—8.9K#626
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8.9K#626
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.3K#3,148
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020380#57,805
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000334#57,090
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010299#66,164
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961133—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198192—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195168—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199167—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197166—
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202161—

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 Peris mean, and where does it come from?
from OFr Piers, from Pierre; first attested Gilbert Perse 1198 P (Lo) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Peris?
A machine transcription gives /peɾis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Peris have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 8.9 thousand people named Peris, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peris.
Where is Peris most common?
Peris is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Peris?
In Spain, the national register counted 8,948 people named Peris, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
How common is Peris compared with other names?
In Spain, Peris is the 408th most common surname of 395,154 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, “Peris” — the 408th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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