Peiris
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of either Pearce or Paris (on the latter possibility, see Black, p
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɛɪɹɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peiris is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Sri Lanka it is the 45th most common surname.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 299Kas පීරිස්(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1Mas Parsi
- DKDenmark1 in 189K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Peiris itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- 1 in 189K (inferred from the name graph)
6,635 named Piris
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Piris in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of either Pearce or Paris (on the latter possibility, see Black, p. 647).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peiris counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 6,635as Piris | 1 in 6.9K | 6.6K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,828as Piris | 1 in 36K | 5.8K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 2,516as Piris | 1 in 20K | 2.5K | Piris | 10 |
| IN India | — | 433as Parsi | 1 in 3.1M | 433 | Peiris | 10 |
| US United States | — | 292as Parsi | 1 in 1.1M | 397 | Peiris | 145 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 137as Piris | 1 in 25K | 137 | — | — |
| LK Sri Lanka | #45 | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Peiris | 95 |
| SE Sweden | — | 54as Parsi | 1 in 189K | 54 | — | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 31 | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | — |
6,635 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Peirisb. 1856LKSri Lankan politician (1856-1930)
- Edmund Peirisb. 1897GBCatholic bishop in Sri Lanka (1897–1989)
- Harold Peirisb. 1904LKSri Lankan author
- Vincent Peirisb. 1941LKSri Lankan Catholic bishop
- G. L. Peirisb. 1946LKSri Lankan politician
- Hiranya Peirisb. 1974GBBritish astrophysicist who studies the big bang
- Amal Peirisb. 1985LKSri Lankan cricketer
- Madushka Peirisb. 1987LKassociation football player
- David Peirisresearcher
- Dharini Amitha PeirisNZlecturer in information systems at University of Auckland in New Zealand
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 386 | #57,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 290 | #67,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 137 | #117,538 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 115 | #24,911 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 115 | #24,832 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 47 | #13,283 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 31 | #16,073 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Peiris come from?
- variant of either Pearce or Paris (on the latter possibility, see Black, p. 647). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Peiris?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛɪɹɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Peiris mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of either Pearce or Paris (on the latter possibility, see Black, p.
- In which country does Peiris have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Piris, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Peiris most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peiris is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 189 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Peiris?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 31 people named Peiris, about 1 in 189 thousand residents.
- How common is Peiris compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Peiris is the 45th most common surname of 20,196 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Peiris?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peirisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Peiris” — the 45th most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.