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Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from Old French pel(l)erin, pelegrin ‘pilgrim’; a nickname for a person who had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land or to a famous holy site elsewhere. See also Pilgrim.
  • A Pelerin of unknown regional background, who was also known as Saint-Amand, is recorded at Trois Rivières, Quebec, in 1655.