MEANING & HISTORY
What does Pedro mean?
Pedro is the Spanish and Portuguese continuation of Latin Petrus, from Greek Petros, rock or stone. The biblical apostle Peter is central to its transmission as a personal name.
Pedro, Peter and Pietro are language counterparts rather than names with unrelated meanings. Strength and reliability are symbolic associations with rock, not additional literal roots.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ˈpedɾo/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˈpɛː.d̪ɾo]Standard-Tagalog
Pe · dro2 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗English
- /ˈpɛdɹəʊ/UK
- /peɪdɹəʊ/UK
- /ˈpeɪdɹoʊ/US
- /ˈpɛdɹoʊ/US
Pe · dro2 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”).
a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Peter
CebuanoEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”).
a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Peter
EnglishEtymology & source
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.
SpanishEtymology & source
Inherited from Old Spanish Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra) (compare piedra). The lack of diphthongization of the short stressed /ɛ/ in Latin to /je/, which would have yielded *Piedro, is irregular.
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Peter
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Pedro
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Pedro Bantigue y Natividad
Catholic bishop (1920–2012)
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Pedro de Sarrio
Spaniard in the Philippines
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
87
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
43
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Pedro Bantigue y Natividad, Pedro de Sarrio
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Pedro in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Pedro
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Pearl♀Pearl, the mollusc-formed gem
- Pedot♂Familiar form recorded for Pedro and Alfredo
- Pekto♂Short form of Perfecto; complete or accomplished
- Perry♂♀Pear-tree surname or Welsh son of Herry
- Petra♀Feminine of Peter: stone
- Isidro♂Gift of Isis; form of Isidore
- Leandro♂Lion and man; form of Leander
- Pedong♂Philippine familiar form of Alfredo or Alfred
What rhymes with Pedro?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Recorded combinations with Pedro
3 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
Explore combinations →Explore Pedro further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q15897419 — Pedro (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Pedro Bantigue y Natividad (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q15897419 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Pedro de Sarrio (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q15897419 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Pedro (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Pedro (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Pedro (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Pedro (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Pedro (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.