Piero
Fewer than fifty men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one. An Italian name from the Latin for "rock, stone", and given only to boys.
Piero Pronunciation
Piero is pronounced PYE-ro (/ˈpjɛrɔ/).
What Piero means
Where Piero comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Piero is the Italian short form of Pietro, and both go back to Latin Petrus. The Romans built that name on the Greek petra, a rock or a slab of stone. The meaning never drifted. Piero means rock, and in the Polish reading kamień, skała.
Italy gave the name to real people who left a mark. Piero della Francesca, the painter from Arezzo who died in 1492, signed frescoes that still draw crowds. A century earlier Piero de' Medici helped run Florence. The stone in the name suited men expected to hold their ground.
In a Polish class register Piero would sit oddly among the many Piotr entries, since Piotr is the local heir of the same Petrus. The imieniny of Piotr falls on 29 June. A Polish Piero borrows an Italian face for a Latin word that means stone.
How many people are named Piero
1 in 533655 men in Poland is named Piero. 40 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6154 among male names.
Piero as a middle name
Piero is a first name for 40 men in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 67/33 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2012th, between Pascual (20) and Preston (20).
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#2010 Oluwaseun20
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#2011 Pascual20
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#2012 Piero20
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#2013 Preston20
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#2014 Raffaele20