Hello, worldnames
Hello, my name isGirlBoy

Pedro

Pronounced /ˈpɛdɹəʊ/

Rank in 2024
#402
Born in 2024
799
Peak year
2000 · #210
Origin
Spanish

1880 to 2024

Steady
00.250.50.75118801900192019401960198020002020
Hover or tap the chart for any year. Per 1,000 adjusts for how many babies were born that year.
Compare Pedro with other names

Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 799 boys were named Pedro, about 1 in every 2,147.
  • It peaked in 2000 with 1,704 babies, ranked #210.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 93,393 boys have been named Pedro since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Pedro per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.3
    Greatest
  2. 0.3
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.5
    Gen X
  5. 0.7
    Millennials
  6. 0.8
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5,040 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Silent: 6,565 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Boomers: 11,042 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen X: 14,327 babies, 0.53 per 1,000. Millennials: 22,360 babies, 0.73 per 1,000. Gen Z: 23,739 babies, 0.76 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 9,755 babies, 0.45 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Peter, Piers, Pietro, and Boutros.

  • A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English Peter.
Origin
Spanish
Say it
/ˈpɛdɹəʊ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Pedro, CC BY-SA 4.0.