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First name origin & meaning:

Latin: Rock, stone

First name variations: Pete, Petey, Pietor, Pytor, Petr, Pieter, Piotr, Pietro, Pedro, Pierre, Piers, Pierce, Peer, Piero, Peder, Per, Pelle, Peadair, Petrus, Peterson, Perrin, Perkin, Perkins, Parnell, Parle, Parkin, Parkinson, Petrie, Petri, Petronio, Pierson, Péter, Petò, Petúr, Pyotr, Peter

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Italian: from the personal name Pero, a variant of Piero, which is a French-influenced form of Pietro.
  2. Galician: from the personal name Pero, Galician equivalent of Peter.
  3. Portuguese: habitational name from any of the places called Pero in Portugal.
  4. Catalan (Peró): pet form of the personal name Pere.
  5. In New England, probably an altered spelling of French Perrault.