Pedro

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Peter in SE Sweden, GB United Kingdom, CO Colombia and 1 more, Pietro in IT Italy and Pêdrö in DO Dominican Republic.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Pedro is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name3.8M records spelled Pedro47 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, Guatemala

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Pedroe, Pedrò, Pédro, Pedró, Pëdrö

• a separate given name216K records spelled Pedro3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

  Also written Pedró, Pédro

• Catalan given name204K records spelled Pedro3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Andorra, Argentina

  Also written Pédro, Pedró

• Polish given name27K records spelled Pedro47 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Spain, Peru

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Педро, Педру, Пёдро, Пэдро, Пэдру

• Indonesian given name12K records spelled Pedro3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Spain, United States, Peru

  Also written Pëdrö, Pëďřö

97 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Pedro is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, Peter (leading Apostle in the New Testament)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, Peter (biblical character)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, del latín Petrus, del griego petros/petra, 'roca, piedra'; símbolo de firmeza.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In Spanish, latín Petrus, de petra; 'piedra, roca'.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In Swedish, Pedro är en spansk form av → Petrus. Namnet användes en del i Sverige under 1800-talets senare del.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Peter of Castileb. 1334ESnot in their usual nameking of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369
• Peter II of Portugalb. 1648PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (1648–1706)
• Pedro IIb. 1825BR2nd and final Emperor of Brazil (r. 1831–89)
• Pedro Piresb. 1934CVCape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde
• Mario Vargas Llosab. 1936PEnot in their usual namePeruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer (1936–2025)
• Pedro Almodóvarb. 1949ESSpanish filmmaker (born 1949)
• Pedro Santana Lopesb. 1956PTPortuguese lawyer and politician (born 1956)
• Pedro Passos Coelhob. 1964PTformer Prime Minister of Portugal
• Pedro Alonsob. 1971ESSpanish actor
• Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejónb. 1972ESPrime Minister of Spain since 2018

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,288 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pedro?

We estimate roughly 2.8 million people bear Pedro (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Pedro have the most bearers?

Pedro is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled pedro.

How common is Pedro compared with other names?

In Argentina, Pedro is the 81st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Pedro a male or female name?

Pedro is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Pedro mean?

Recorded meaning: An American trick-taking card game of the all fours family.