There exists also a branch among jewish people, not related with the first ones. In this case Hebrew: פרס, romanized: ˈperes 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:
Adans Lopez Peres (born 1975), Portuguese second husband of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
Asher Peres (1934–2005), Israeli physicist (born Aristide Pressman)
Peres Jepchirchir (born 1993), Kenyan runner and half marathon world champion
Surname list
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