Last name: PERRON
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PERRON : This last name is indexed 398,265 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PERRON : 1: Altered form of French Péron (see Peron 1) a cognate of 2 below. Compare Paro Pearo Pero and Perow.2: French: from a pet form of the Old French personal name Perre a variant of Pierre French form of Peter. This surname is also established in England taken there by the Huguenots; compare Perrin.3: French: habitational name from (Le) Perron the name of several places in various parts of France (e.g. in Jura) named from pierre ‘stone rock’.4: Breton (rarely Le Pérron): variant of Pédron (see Pedron).5: Spanish (Perrón): probably from an augmentative of perro ‘dog’.6: Italian: variant of Perrone with loss of the final syllable.
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