Pedro

Spanish and Portuguese male given name
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
OriginWord/namePetraMeaningRockRegion of origin
  • Spain
  • Latin America
  • Portugal
  • Philippines
Other namesAlternative spellingPero[1]Related names
  • Peter
  • Pierre
  • Pietro
  • Boutros
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Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for Peter.[2] 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".[3]

The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic Kephas or Cephas meaning "stone".

An alternative archaic variant is Pero.[1]

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

Politicians and leaders

Explorers

Criminals

Other people

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, the name of the gardener in the 1984 video game Pedro
  • Pedro, another name of Panama Joe, a character from Montezuma's Revenge (video game)
  • 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

  1. ^ a b Rocha, Carlos (24 September 2013). "O plural de pêro-botelho (e uma nota etimológica)" [The plural of pêro-botelho (and an etymological note)]. Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa [pt] (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 10 May 2018. 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]
  2. ^ MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Pedro
  3. ^ "MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Peter". Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
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