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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a female derivative of the personal name Pero.
  • Catalan : habitational name from any of various places called Perella, in the Vallespir, Solsonè, and Ripollès areas (northern Catalonia) and also in Minorca.
  • Italian : unexplained.

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