Pedro Explained
| Pedro |
| Pronunciation: | pronounced as /es/
pronounced as /pt/ |
| Gender: | Male |
| Meaning: | Rock |
| Origin: | Petra |
| Alternative Spelling: | Pero |
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for Peter.[1] 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" (compare with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, and 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".
The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πέτρα" meaning "stone, rock".[2]
The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic Kephas or Cephas meaning "stone".
An alternative archaic variant is Pero.[3]
Notable people with the name Pedro include:
Monarchs, mononymously
Sport
Mononymously
- Pedri, Pedro González López, Spanish footballer
- Pedró, José Pedro Azevedo Ferreira, Portuguese football player
- Pedro (footballer, born 1978), Pedro Hernández Martínez, Spanish football player, right-back
- Pedro (footballer, born 1984), Pedro Santa Cecilia García, Spanish football player, midfielder
- Pedro (footballer, born 1986), Pedro Antonio Sánchez Moñino, Spanish footballer, forward
- Pedro (footballer, born 1987), Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma, Spanish footballer, forward/winger
- Pedro (footballer, born 1997), Pedro Guilherme Abreu dos Santos, Brazilian football player, forward
- Pedro (footballer, born 1999), Pedro Augusto Cabral Carvalho, Brazilian football player, forward
- Pedro (footballer, born 2006), Pedro Henrique Silva dos Santos, Brazilian football player, forward
Others in sport
- Pedro Acosta, 2021 Moto3 World Champion
- Pedro Acosta, Venezuelan football player
- Pedro Aroche, Mexican race walker
- Pedro Botelho (footballer, born 1989), Brazilian footballer
- Pedro Casado (1937–2021), Spanish footballer
- Pedro Chirivella, Spanish football player
- Pedro Collins, West Indian cricketer
- Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish racing driver
- Pedro Diniz, Brazilian racing driver
- Pedro Feliciano (1976–2021), Puerto Rican baseball player
- Pedro Gil, Spanish roller hockey player
- Pedro Gusmão, Brazilian football player
- Pedro Iznaga, Cuban volleyball player
- Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer
- Pedro Lamy, Portuguese Grand Prix driver
- Pedro Lima (swimmer) (born 1971), former Olympic swimmer from Angola
- Pedro Lima (boxer) (born 1983), Brazilian boxer
- Pedro Martínez, Dominican baseball player
- Pedro Miguel Pauleta, Portuguese football player
- Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
- Pedro Pérez, Cuban triple jumper
- Pedro Pineda, Mexican football player
- Pedro Rivas (1945–2007), Panamanian basketball player
- Pedro Rodríguez (disambiguation), multiple people
- Pedro Senatore Ramos, Ecuadorian football referee
- Pedro da Silva (decathlete), Brazilian decathlete
- Pedro Zabála, Bolivian footballer
Politicians and leaders
- Pedro, Marshal of Navarre (-1522), 15th- and 16th-century nobleman
- Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1879–1941), Chilean political figure
- Pedro Atacho (born 1960), Curaçaoan politician
- Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (1903-1970), President of Argentina from 1955 to 1958
- Pedro Espada Jr. (born 1953), American politician
- Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (born 1938), President of Peru from 2016 to 2018
- José Pedro Pérez-Llorca (1940–2019), Spanish politician
- Pedro Lascuráin (1856–1952), President of Mexico
- Pedro Pablo Ramírez (1884-1962), President of Argentina from 1943 to 1944
- Pedro Rosselló (born 1944), Governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001
- Pedro I. "Pete" Saenz (born 1951), American politician
- Pedro Sánchez (born 1972), Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
- Pedro Agulto Tenorio (born 1941), Northern Marianan politician
- Pedro Pangelinan Tenorio (1934–2018), Northern Mariana Islander politician
- Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez (1858–1927), Colombian general and political figure
Explorers
Criminals
Other people
- Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
- Pedro de Ayala, Spanish diplomat
- Pedro Calungsod, Filipino saint
- Pedro de San José de Betancur, Spanish saint and missionary in Guatemala
- Pedro Alcantara de Souza (died 2010), Brazilian land reform activist
- Pedro Dimas, Mexican musician
- Pedro Duro, Spanish businessman
- Pedro Gomez (dance instructor), Cuban Salsa dance instructor
- Pedro Gomez (journalist), American television reporter
- Pedro X. Molina (born 1976), Nicaraguan caricaturist
- Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician
- Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia
- Pedro Pascal, Chilean-American actor
- Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet
- Pedro Reyes (comedian), Spanish comedian
- Pedro Rodriguez (scientist), Puerto Rican scientist and inventor
- Pedro Sousa, Portuguese comedian
- Pedro Rodríguez (soldier), Puerto Rican Korean War hero
- Pedro Trebbau, German-born, Venezuelan zoologist
- Pedro Vieira, portuguese scientist
- Pedro Wonaeamirri (born 1974), Aboriginal Australian artist
- Pedro Yap, former Philippine Chief Justice
- Pedro Zamora, cast member on The Real World
- Pero Vaz de Caminha, Portuguese knight
Fictional characters
- Don Pedro, a character from Much Ado About Nothing, a comedy by William Shakespeare
- Don Pedro, a character from the Philippine story Ibong Adarna
- Pedro, from The Power of Five novel series by Anthony Horowitz
- Pedro, a character from the One Piece manga series
- Pedro, a character from the Excel Saga manga series
- Pedro, in the Sam & Max Season Two video game series
- Pedro, a mascot of South of the Border roadside attraction
- Pedro, a Red-crested Cardinal from Rio
- Pedro the Mail Burro, a mascot of the Boy Scouting magazine Boys' Life
- Pedro Penduko, a Filipino comic book character
- Pedro Plane, protagonist in the Saludos Amigos segment Pedro
- Pedro Pony, a character from the animated TV series Peppa Pig
- Pedro Sanchez, character from the film Napoleon Dynamite
See also
References
- http://www.mfnames.com/mnames/p/origin-and-meaning-of-pedro.htm MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Pedro
- Web site: MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Peter . 2009-01-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141030182157/http://www.mfnames.com/mnames/p/origin-and-meaning-of-peter.htm . 2014-10-30 . dead .
- Web site: Rocha. Carlos. 24 September 2013. O plural de pêro-botelho (e uma nota etimológica). The plural of pêro-botelho (and an etymological note). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180510115700/https://ciberduvidas.iscte-iul.pt/consultorio/perguntas/o-plural-de-pero-botelho-e-uma-nota-etimologica/32358. 10 May 2018. . Portuguese. Pero (ou Pêro, antes da aplicação do Acordo Ortográfico de 1990) (...) Pero é variante arcaica de Pedro e ocorria sobretudo como forma proclítica, antes de um patronímico. Pero (or Pêro, before the application of the Orthographic Agreement of 1990) (...) Pero is an archaic variant of Pedro and mainly occurred as a proclitic form, before a patronymic.
