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Pierce Last Name History & Origin
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Name Origin
(1) English, Welsh and Irish, from the personal name, Piers, the usual Norman vernacular form of Peter. In Whales this represents a patronymic ap of Piers. In Ireland it represents a reduced anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais "son of Piaras", a Gaelicized form of Piers.
(2) Americanized form of "some" similar-sounding Jewish surname.
From the "Dictionary of American family names", Oxford University press, Mar 2003
Spellings & Pronunciations
In early colonial times it was spelled, "Pers, Perse (purse) Piers, Peirce and then to the present, Pierce.
From the book, "Pierce Genealogy, being a record of the posterity of Thomas Pierce, an early inhabitant of Charlestown and later Charlestown villiage (Woburn), in New England" by Frederic B. Pierce and Frederic C Pierce, published 1882
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Famous People named Pierce
14 TH President, Franklin Pierce 1804-1869
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