Pèire

given name · Latin script

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

Pèire is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros).

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 79K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 489K
  • ESSpain1 in 758K

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.

Belgium (measured from records)

149 people, 2008

Sources
85 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Peire in FR France, BE Belgium.

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)

Derivation of Pèire: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Pèire
  1. LatinPetrus(measured from records)
  2. Ancient GreekΠέτροςPétros(measured from records)

From Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros).

Sources 1

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pèire 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 Pèire is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium1491 in 79K149Peire17
AR Argentina931 in 489K93——
ES Spain661 in 758K66—1
BR Brazil211 in 10M21——
FR France≈3 est.≈1 in 20M10Peire85
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1——

149 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Chile, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Peire, Peiré

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Peire, Peiré

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Peire, Peirè

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Peire

1 further group 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)

Pèire 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 Occitan, a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Peter

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

  • In Scottish Gaelic, genitive singular of peur

    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)

100012001400160018002000Peire d'Auvergne, b. 1120Peire d'Ussel, b. 1150Peire Vidal, b. 1175Peire Cardenal, b. 1180Pierre Causse, b. 1883Pierre Azéma, b. 1891Pierre Millet, b. 1913Pierre Bec, b. 1921Pèire Pessamessa, b. 1931

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Pèire mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros). Recorded by Wiktionary.
What are other forms of the name Pèire?
In the etymology graph, Peter, Pedro and Pierre are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Pèire a male or female name?
Pèire is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Pèire have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 149 people named Pèire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peire.
Where is Pèire most common?
Pèire is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 79 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pèire?
In Belgium, the national register counted 149 people named Pèire in 2008, about 1 in 79 thousand 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, “Pèire”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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