Pedro
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Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for Peter. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
Key facts
- Given name.name
- Pedro
- Given name.gender
- Male
- Given name.meaning
- Rock
- Given name.origin
- Petra
- Given name.alternative spelling
- Pero
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- male given name
- Said to be same as
- Peeter
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- IPA transcription
- ˈpeðɾu
- Soundex
- P360
- Cologne phonetics
- 127
- Caverphone
- PTR111
- different from
- Pedro
- native label
- Pedro
- Commons category
- Pedro (given name)
- writing system
- Latin script
- language of work or name
- Aragonese
- given name version for other gender
- Petra
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Encyclopedic overview
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Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for Peter. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning "son of Peter" (compared with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, Peres in Galician and Portuguese, Pires also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of Sri Lanka (where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pero".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pedro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.