Pira Family History

Italian: nickname or topographic name from the southern regional word pira ‘pear (tree)’. Italian (Sardinia): nickname or metonymic occupational name from pira ‘(wood) pile’.

Catalan (Balearic Islands): perhaps a habitational name from a place so named in Tarragona province Catalonia (Spain). Alternatively it may be of Italian origin (see 1 above).

Assyrian/Chaldean: from a variant of the personal name Pera ‘lamb’.

Indian (Tamil Nadu): perhaps from a shortened form of Tamil piramalai ‘spy’.