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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishPiers—
2Old FrenchPiers—
3LatinPetrusPeter
4Indonesianpenembakshooter
5Indonesiantembakto shoot to fire a shot
6Malaytembakto shoot
7MalaytimbakObsolete form of tembak
8Proto-Malayictimbak—
9Proto-Malayo-Polynesianti(m)bak—

Words derived from “Peirce”

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ti(m)bak →Every word from Proto-Malayic timbak →Every word from Malay timbak →