Peres is a patronymic Portuguese and Galician surname. Its modern variant is Pires.[1]

There exists also a branch among jewish people, not related with the first ones. In this case Hebrew: פרס, romanizedˈperes is the name of the Bearded vulture or Gypaetus barbatus, commonly known as the lammergeier). However, the surname is from the son of Tamar and Judah, whose name means "bearded vulture". In the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Daniel, the words which form the "writing on the wall" at Belshazzar's feast are recorded initially as mene, mene, tekel, upharsin (Daniel 5:25) but the final word is given as peres in verse 28, where its meaning is said to be "Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians".[2]

People with the surname Peres include:

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  1. ^ "Peres familia heráldica genealogía escudo Peres".
  2. ^ Daniel 5:28

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