Other Similar Names
- Perec (a Slavonic name)
- Perez (son of Judah) in the Book of Genesis (also written as Peretz, Perets, Pharez)
- Perutz
- Perez and Peres (an Iberian Jewish family name, confused by some writers with a similar term meaning 'son of the father' and by others with a patronymic for "child of Peter"). Perez is the Spanish form of the Hebrew family name Peretz. It was adopted as a family name by Spanish Hebrew (Sephardi Jews) families during a time of religious intolerance (1318 c.e.) in Spain. The name is also one of the names of the Messiah in Rabbinic tradition. It is a common family name among descendants of Spanish Jewish families that converted during the Inquisition.
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