What do you think the nationality of this name is?

Question

Obviously i know the nationality, to give you a clue its dual nationality, but id be interested to hear what you think it is. Judge it on both the first name and last name, what nationality do you think it is:

Jacques Pierce

p.s this isnt a trick question or anything, so just say what you reckon it is

Answer 1

Jacques, of course, is French.  Ancestry.com provides the following info for the surname Pierce.

Name History and Origin for  Pierce

  

Last Name

Pierce

English, Welsh, and Irish: from the personal name Piers, the usual Norman vernacular form of Peter. In Wales this represents a patronymic ap Piers. In Ireland it represents a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.

Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Answer 2

Canadiene/American?

Answer 3

German and English origin.  It could easily be a name given to a child in the United States or many other places but the origin of the parent or parents ancestry would be German and English way back.

Answer 4

Jacques is French.  Pierce seems English, with an French influence.

Remember that names were changed when immigrants crossed the borders.  In my family, CORBEAU in France became CORBETT in Wales.

Answer 5

French and english

Answer 6

French, possibly Acadian.

Answer 7

i would think it was french and scandonavian maybe

Answer 8

French/English

Answer 9

Jacques is French, of course.  Pierce is English or Irish, unless it's been Angliized from some other language.  A combination of the two nationalities seems most likely to be found in Canada, although there's a journalist named Jacques Kelly in Baltimore, Maryland.  Another possibility for the combination of solid British Isles last name and somewhat exotic first name is African-American.

Answer 10

its french becuz jacques is french. depends on how you say pierce.

Answer 11

Well Jacques is french and possibly Pierce is from the Nez Pierce Indians along the Louisana Purchase the USA made from France. It was common for french and Indian marriages back in the day to combine the two