Pero

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Перо in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia.

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◐

Pero is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name27K records spelled Pero8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Però, Péro, Péró, Peró

• Portuguese given name14K records spelled Pero7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Mexico

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Peró, Pêro, Perô, Però, Péró

• Turkish given name11K records spelled Pero3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

  Also written Perö, Pêro

• French given name3.7K records spelled Pero11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Congo - Kinshasa

  Also written Péro, Perú, Peró, Përô, Peru

• a separate given name1.1K records spelled Pero4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

  Also written Peró, Però, Péró

• Hindi given name1.0K records spelled Pero5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Türkiye

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Perö, Però, Perô

• Indonesian given name604 records spelled Pero5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Türkiye

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Però, Péro, Peró

52 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●

Pero 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 Italian, variante regional de Pietro/Piero

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In German, männl. Vom., bulgarische und slowe­ nische Koseform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Latin, A kind of boot made of raw hide, worn chiefly by soldiers or wagoners; a clodhopper

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

• In pap, but (introduces a clause that contradicts the implications of the previous clause)

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

• In Portuguese, a variety of apple, the fruit of the pereiro

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

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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. 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 II of Aragonb. 1174FRnot in their usual nameKing of Aragon from 1196 to 1213
• Pero Vaz de Caminhab. 1450PTPortuguese knight (c. 1450 – 1500)
• Pero de Magalhães Gândavob. 1540PTPortuguese scientist
• Pero Budmanib. 1835HRCroatian linguist (1835-1914)
• Pero Carb. 1920HRYugoslavian and Croatian politician
• Pero Bukejlovićb. 1946BASrpska politician
• Pero Sudarb. 1951BABosnian bishop
• Pero Cameronb. 1974NZNew Zealand basketball player (born 1974)
• Pero Antićb. 1982MKMacedonian basketball player (born 1982)
• Pero Pejićb. 1982HRCroatian footballer

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 · 230 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pero?

We estimate roughly 8.0 thousand people bear Pero (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Pero have the most bearers?

We estimate about 5.7 thousand people bear Pero in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled pero.

Where is Pero most common?

Pero is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 743 people carrying it.

How common is Pero compared with other names?

In Croatia, Pero is the 189th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Pero a male or female name?

Pero is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.

What does the name Pero mean?

Recorded meaning: feather, plume