Pereira Portuguese - Surname Portuguese, toponymic, ie geographical origin, in this case, where there are pears or pear. The primitive Pereiras were connected to the house of Bragança, Portugal, and lived in the Quinta de Pereira, where they took the nickname, along the river Ave, in the land of Vermoim. The earliest origins of the family comes from the Earl of Forjaz Bermudez, grandnephew of Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards of Italy. In Brazil, the first Pereira Francisco was the donee Pereira Coutinho, brutally murdered by the Indians in tupinambás Itaparica in 1549. Among his descendants is one of the most important publishers in Brazil, José Olympio Pereira `Son`. The name was also adopted by New Christians. In 1606, he arrived in Brazil deported to Ana Pereira, accused of bigamy.
