Meaning and Origin of: Pierre

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Rock, stone
  • French : Rock

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from the French personal name Pierre (see Peter).
  • French : from Old French pierre ‘stone’, ‘rock’ (Latin petra), a topographic name for 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.