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Pietro

#3,073 in 2025Boys' name

Stone, rock

Pietro has been given to 2,423 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #3,073 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Pietro, 2025

1 in 82,900

Pietro over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pietro: meaning, origin, and history

Stone, rock

Ancient Greek and Italian

What Pietro means

Pietro means “stone, rock”, associated with pétros.

Origin, language, and formation

Pietro is used in Italian and Portuguese. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Italian.

Pietro comes through Latin Petrus and Ancient Greek Πέτρος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Peter.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Pietro is pronounced /ˈpjɛ.tro/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,423 boys were recorded with the name Pietro between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,147 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,706 in 2020 to #3,073 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,067 in 2015 to #3,073 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pietro?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 42,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,073
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pietro sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pietro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pietros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pietro was born before 1985 — so the typical Pietro is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
15.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,041
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Choose a decade

1970s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (378).

Is Pietro rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+593
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+633
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.9%
Peak was 1974 (52)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,147
1974

Spellings of Pietro

Pietro is not the most common spelling — Pedro is, with 78.8% against Pietro's 2.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pietro is used

Across 1910–2025, Pietro was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 74,252 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 50,000
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pietro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pietro around the world

Where Pietro ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2021–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • France
    1901–2025
    #1,731
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Pietro

People whose public names include Pietro, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Pietro in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Pietro. Linked forms have their own page here.

PerKepaPeerPeruPetrPederPedroPetarPeterPetroPieroPiotrPetrosPetrusPetterPierrePieterPêrPehrPerePeroPietPeetuPetko

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Pietro by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,073
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 633
Best rank ever
#1,147
1974
Peak year
1974
52 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,423
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Pietro

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

PieterPiersonPieroPierrePiercePiersAstroPiercenMetroDmytroPierPetroPiercesonPierePiersenPierinoPierrieMaestroCalistroPierstonCastroCalixtroSilvestro

Names with a curve like Pietro

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pietro, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RenatoDomenicoAntoninoNicolaSvenLuigiChristosJensDietrichGeronimoLavelleNino

Sibling names for Pietro

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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