Frequency: (427)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Aisne and Calvados, so called from Old French pierre ‘stone’ + pont ‘bridge’.
FOREBEARS: All the New England Pierpont lines seem to be descended from James and his sons John and Robert, who came to America about 1640. James also may have had a brother Robert who was part of that group. The southern Pierpo(i)nt family are descended from Henry, who came to the VA-MD region in 1635.
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