Family name origins & meanings
- southern French : from a southern pet form of the personal name Pierre, French form of Peter. This name is also established in England, taken there by the Huguenots.
- French : habitational name from places in Côte d’Or, Manche, Jura, and Mayenne named Perron or Le Perron, from pierre ‘stone’, ‘rock’.
- Spanish (Perrón) : probably from an augmentative of perro ‘dog’.
- Italian : shortened form of Perrone.
- A Perron, also called <xref>Suire</xref>, from the Aunis region of France is documented at Château Richer, Quebec, in 1664.