Where does “Pierson” come from?

Pierson is an English surname derived from Old French Piers, itself from Old French Pierre, a personal name ultimately of Latin origin meaning "stone."

Ancestry of “Pierson”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	English	piers	plural of pier
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	—

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