Name profile

Pedro

Spanish and Portuguese form of Peter.

PronunciationSpanish /ˈpe.ðɾo/; Portuguese /ˈpe.dɾu/
Usage languagesAragonese, Galician, Portuguese, Spanish
US rank (2025)#455

Meaning and history

Spanish and Portuguese form of Peter. It was the name of Brazil’s only two emperors, who reigned from 1822 to 1889.

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 1,651 births, rank #219
2007: 1,609 births, rank #230
2008: 1,409 births, rank #248
2009: 1,276 births, rank #269
2010: 1,193 births, rank #282
20112011: 1,049 births, rank #307
2012: 1,017 births, rank #317
2013: 925 births, rank #346
2014: 904 births, rank #355
2015: 875 births, rank #368
20162016: 878 births, rank #375
2017: 811 births, rank #395
2018: 805 births, rank #394
2019: 784 births, rank #398
2020: 723 births, rank #410
20212021: 722 births, rank #430
2022: 775 births, rank #417
2023: 756 births, rank #420
2024: 801 births, rank #403
20252025: 684 births, rank #455

Pedro moved from #403 to #455 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2000, with 1,704 births.