Where does “Peirce” come from?

Peirce is a variant of Piers, from Old French Piers, itself a form of Old French Pierre, ultimately deriving from the Latin name Petrus meaning stone.

Ancestry of “Peirce”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	English	Piers	—
2	Old French	Piers	—
3	Latin	Petrus	Peter
4	Indonesian	penembak	—
5	Indonesian	tembak	—
6	Malay	tembak	to shoot
7	Malay	timbak	Obsolete form of tembak
8	Proto-Malayic	timbak	—
9	Proto-Malayo-Polynesian	ti(m)bak	—

Words derived from “Peirce”

Peircean
Peircian

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