Peregrine, from the
LatinPeregrinus is a given name and a surname. Another form is Peregrino.
The word peregrine originally meant "foreign", from the Latin peregrinus. The term broadened to mean "wandering" or "travelling" from the habits of young
peregrine falcons (falco peregrinus, meaning "
pilgrim falcon" in
Medieval Latin), which would travel long distances to find a suitable nesting place in a high place.[1] The peregrine falcon was first named thus by English ornithologist
Marmaduke Tunstall in 1771.[2]
Peregrinus was the name of some early
saints.[3] The word passed into
Old French as pelegrin (meaning "pilgrim"), which may also have been used in
Middle English as a variant of pilgrim. Some
French Huguenots who had moved to England by the 18th century bore the surname "Pelegrin".[4]
The first records of the surname Peregrine in England are from
Norfolk in the 13th century, where these
Norman descendants held vast estates.[2]
In the United States, Peregrine was the name chosen for the first English child born on Mayflower when it arrived in
Provincetown.[5] The name is not a common one these days.[3]
People with the name Peregrine or Peregrinus include:
Single name
Cetteus or Peregrinus (died 597), Roman Catholic saint and bishop of Amiternum
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