Popularity of the last name by country

Belgium

• Namur (19,004)
• Luxembourg (15,100)
• Liège (8,772)
• Brabant wallon (5,534)
• Hainaut (3,379)
• Vlaams-Brabant (2,428)
• Bruxelles-Capitale | Brussel-Hoofdstad (1,860)
• Antwerpen (1,093)
• Oost-Vlaanderen (997)
• West-Vlaanderen (933)
• Limburg (313)

All countries

• France (1,518,080)
• Canada (136,843)
• Belgium (61,670)
• United States (11,788)
• Switzerland (10,864)
• Netherlands (6,840)
• United Kingdom (6,096)
• Algeria (5,253)
• Martinique (4,341)
• Guadeloupe (2,657)
• Italy (2,549)
• Germany (2,500)
• Luxembourg (2,013)
• Réunion (1,749)
• Spain (1,285)
• Unknown country (1,191)
• Haiti (962)
• Sweden (901)
• Tunisia (821)
• Madagascar (683)
• Viet Nam (644)
• Morocco (499)
• India (355)
• French Guiana (308)
• New Caledonia (269)
• Austria (258)
• Mauritius (258)
• Denmark (244)
• Ireland (228)
• Gibraltar (227)
• Australia (204)
• Romania (204)
• Russian Federation (194)
• Turkey (184)
• New Zealand (164)
• Palestine (162)
• Poland (159)
• Israel (144)
• Netherlands Antilles (143)
• Lebanon (124)

Origine of last name

PIERRE : French Walloon West Indian (mainly Haiti) and Mauritian:: 1: from the personal name Pierre French form of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Peter">Peter</a> (see also below). This is one of the most frequent surnames in Haiti (along with <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Jean">Jean</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Joseph">Joseph</a>) and in Saint Martin. It is also established elsewhere in the West Indies (e.g. in Trinidad and Tobago Saint Lucia Grenada and Bahamas).2: from Old French pierre ‘stone rock’ (from Latin petra a word which is also the origin of the personal name Pierre; see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Peter">Peter</a>). It may be a topographic name denoting someone who lived on a patch of stony soil or by a large outcrop of rock or a metonymic occupational name for a quarryman or stonemason. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Lapierre">Lapierre</a>.