Pedro
From Latin, "rock, stone", carried in Poland in its Spanish spelling. Fewer than 800 men here answer to it, rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Pedro Pronunciation
Pedro is pronounced PED-ro (/ˈpɛdrɔ/).
What Pedro means
Where Pedro comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pedro descends from the Latin Petrus, which was built on the Greek petros, meaning a rock or a stone. Behind both stands the Latin petra, the same root that supplies words for stone across much of Europe. In the Gospels, Petrus is the name given to the fisherman Simon, and the sense stayed literal: rock, stone.
From Latin the name settled into Spanish, where Pedro grew into one of the most worn and common male names on the peninsula. Kings carried it. Pedro Calderón de la Barca, born in Madrid in 1600, wrote plays that Spanish theatres still stage. The name sat easily on a bricklayer or a monarch.
For a Polish reader the nearest home form is Piotr, though Pedro arrives with its Spanish sound intact. Picture it on a school register beside a row of Kacpers and Antonis. The meaning underneath has barely shifted in two thousand years. Pedro still means stone.
How many people are named Pedro
1 in 27437 men in Poland is named Pedro. 778 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1062 among male names.
Pedro's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Pedro is most popular
Pedro is most popular in Lesser Poland, 535% above the national average (4 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+103%).
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Lesser Poland4 boys born+535%
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Masovian2 boys born+103%
Pedro as a middle name
Pedro is a first name for 778 men in Poland and a middle name for another 249, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 449th, between Krzesimir (249) and Jesus (248).
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#447 Jakob250
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#448 Krzesimir249
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#449 Pedro249
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#450 Jesus248
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#451 Damazy247