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