I want to know from which city in Spain the surname "Pérez" originates from.?

Question

I've done some of my own research and I know that the surname "Pérez" does originate from Spain but I can not find from which city exactly in Spain it originates from.

Answer 1

I found two explanations for you in relation to the name Perez.

Surname: Perez

Of all the surnames which derive from the saints and disciples of the Christian church, 'Petros' meaning 'The rock' has provided the world with the greatest number of both given names and the later medieval surnames. In their different spellings ranging from Peter, Pieter, and Pierre, to patronymics Peterson, Peters, Peres, Perez, Peers, and even the Armenian Bedrosian, to diminutives such as Poschel, Piotrek, Petrenko, and Pietrusska, there are estimated to be over seven hundred spellings. At least one form appears as a popular surname in every European country. The original name was Greek, and Christ chose Peter to be 'the rock' on which the church was to be founded. The name became very popular in Europe following the twelve 'crusades' of the early medieval period, when various kings sought to free the Holy Land. Thereafter the name spread to every country, replacing the original 'local' names. Early examples of the surname recording taken from authentic registers in both Europe and the Americas include Luke Petre of London, England, in 1282, William Petres of Somerset, England, in 1327, Andres Guillen Perez, at Aguaron, Zaragoza, Spain, on December 7th 1565, Martina Josepha Perez, of Santa Catarina, Mexico, on December 23rd 1775, and Antonio Diego Peres, who married Maria Ysabel Yorba, at San Gabriel, Los Angeles, on January 4th 1864. The blazon of the coat of arms is very distinctive. It has a red field charged with a chross flory between four fleur de lis, all gold. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Ralph Peter, which was dated 1195, in the pipe rolls of the county of Hertford, during the reign of King Richard 1st of England, known as 'Lion-heart', 1189 - 1199. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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This information came from www.ancestry.com

Perez Name Meaning and History

Spanish (Pérez) and Jewish (Sephardic): patronymic from the personal name Pedro, Spanish equivalent of Peter.

Jewish: variant of Peretz.

I don't think it's as informative as the first web site.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Well, that would be impossible to tell. Perez is a patronymic surname. A patronymic is a surname based on the name of one's father. In old Spanish, -ez meant "son of". That's how you see Martinez as "son of Martin", Gonzalez as "son of Gonzalo", Fernandez as "son of Fernando", etc. That's why surnames that end with -ez are quite common in Spanish.

Well, back to your surname, Peter, like the disciple of Christ is "Pedro" in Spanish. In ancient Spanish, it was actually "Pero". Then, Perez means "son of Pero" or "son of Pedro". This is how I see this surname originated. At one time in the past, a Spanish guy named Pedro had a son, let's call him Juan, for example. People didn't need surnames because most of them lived in small villages, so everyone knew that this Juan was Pedro's son. But what if another man named Juan came to this village, how could the people differentiate between the new Juan and the Juan they all knew? They started calling the first guy Juan "son of Pedro", or Juan Perez. Then this Juan Perez passed the surname  to his children and his grandchildren, and so on.