Pietro
The Italian cousin of Piotr, built on the Greek petros: rock, stone. It stays rare in Poland, carried by only a few hundred men, so most Poles have never met one.
Pietro Pronunciation
Pietro is pronounced PYET-ro (/ˈpjɛtrɔ/).
What Pietro means
Where Pietro comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pietro comes from the Greek petros, a word that means rock or stone. Italy took it up and made it its own, so today the name reads as thoroughly Italian, from Milan down to Palermo. The Greek root stays visible under the Italian spelling.
There is an old story sitting inside that stone. When the Gospel writer needed a Greek word for the apostle Simon's new title, he chose petros, the rock on which something would be built. So Pietro holds a meaning as plain as it is old: skała, the solid thing that stands.
A boy named Pietro on a Polish szkoła register sits a little apart from the Piotrs around him. Same root, different country. The name still says what the Greek said first: rock, stone.
How many people are named Pietro
1 in 77341 men in Poland is named Pietro. 276 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1834 among male names.
Pietro's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Pietro as a middle name
Pietro is a first name for 276 men in Poland and a middle name for another 61, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 940th, between Franco (61) and Toni (61).
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