Peirson Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Peirson is a spelling of the English surname Pearson. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Son of Piers (Peter)”.

A variant of Pearson

Spelled with “i” instead of “a”, Peirson shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Pierson and Pearse.

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