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