Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for Peter. 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" (compared with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, 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".
The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic Kephas or Cephas meaning "stone".
Alternative variants are Petros and Pero.
Notable people with the name Pedro include:
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Monarchs
Pedro I of Portugal
Pedro II of Portugal
Pedro III of Portugal
Pedro IV of Portugal, also Pedro I of Brazil
Pedro V of Portugal
Pedro II of Brazil
Pedro of Castile
Peter I of Aragon and Navarre, also known as Pedro I
Peter II of Aragon
Peter III of Aragon
Peter IV of Aragon
Peter V of Aragon, also Pedro IV of Barcelona
Sport
Footballer mononyms
Pedró, José Pedro Azevedo Ferreira (born 1987), Portuguese footballer
Pedro (footballer, born 1978), Pedro Hernández Martínez, Spanish football right-back
Pedro (footballer, born 1984), Pedro Santa Cecilia García, Spanish football midfielder
Pedro (footballer, born 1986), Pedro Antonio Sánchez Moñino, Spanish football forward
Pedro (footballer, born 1987), Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma, Spanish football forward/winger
Pedro (footballer, born 1997), Pedro Guilherme Abreu dos Santos, Brazilian football forward
Pedro (footballer, born 1999), Pedro Augusto Cabral Carvalho, Brazilian football forward
Pedro (footballer, born 2006), Pedro Henrique Silva dos Santos, Brazilian football forward
Others in sport
Pedro Acosta (born 2004), Spanish motorcycle racer, 2021 Moto3 world champion
Pedro Acosta (footballer) (born 1959), Venezuelan football manager and former player
Pedro César Acosta (1936–2009), Mexican politician
Pedro Aroche, Mexican race walker
Pedro Botelho (footballer, born 1989), Brazilian footballer
Pedro Casado (1937–2021), Spanish footballer
Pedro Casinha (born 2003), Portuguese canoeist
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 González López, aka Pedri, Spanish footballer
Pedro Gusmão, Brazilian football player
Pedro Iznaga, Cuban volleyball player
Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer
Pedro Lamy, Portuguese Grand Prix driver
Politicians and leaders
Pedro, Marshal of Navarre (c. 1471-1522), 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
Pedro Álvares Cabral, Portuguese navigator and explorer
Pedro Escobar, Portuguese explorer who discovered São Tomé and Príncipe
Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer
Criminals
Pedro Castillo, one of two murderers of a four year-old girl
Pedro Costa de Oliveira, Brazilian serial killer
Pedro Padilla Flores, Mexican serial killer
Pedro Hernandez, convicted in the Disappearance of Etan Patz
Pedro López (serial killer), Colombian serial killer
Pedro Medina, Cuban murderer
Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña, Peruvian serial killer
Pedro Rodrigues Filho, Brazilian serial killer
Pedro Rosa da Conceição, Brazilian mass murderer
Other people
Pedro Acerden, Filipino playwright
Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
Pedro de Ayala, Spanish diplomat
Pedro Calungsod, Filipino saint
Pedro Bismarck Chau, Catholic archbishop
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
Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet
Pedro Friedeberg, Italian-born Mexican artist and designer
Pedro Gomez (journalist), American television reporter
Pedro Ignacio Calderón, Argentine conductor
Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz, Cuban soldier and defector
Pedro X. Molina (born 1976), Nicaraguan caricaturist
Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician
Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia
Pedro Pascal, Chilean-American actor
Pedro Reyes (comedian), Spanish comedian
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 Hernández, a serial killer/supervillain in the comic book series Nemesis: Rogues' Gallery
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