Peers

Peers is an English given name derived from the medieval vernacular form of Peter, itself rooted in the Greek Petros, meaning rock or stone, which in turn translated the Aramaic Cephas, the epithet given to the apostle Simon by Jesus. The name was common in medieval England in forms such as Piers, of which Peers is a variant spelling. Piers Plowman, the fourteenth-century allegorical poem attributed to William Langland, stands as one of the most prominent cultural associations of this name family. Pierce and Perry are among the related forms that developed from the same medieval English source.