Pedro

Where Pedro comes from

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.
— Wiktionary's entry for Pedro
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1600
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca born
    Spanish dramatist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #299 among boys — 31 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1972
    Pedro Sánchez born
    Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
  4. 1992
    Peak, #188
    1,670 babies named Pedro — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #395.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English Peter.
Namesakes
  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca · Spanish dramatist, 1600–1681
  • Pedro Sánchez · Prime Minister of Spain since 2018, born 1972
  • Pedro Almodóvar · Spanish filmmaker, born 1949
  • Pedro I of Brazil · Emperor of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in 1826, 1798–1834
  • Pedro Álvares Cabral · Portuguese military commander and explorer, 1467–1520

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.