Pedro

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Pedro boys named Pedro

By the numbers

Total US births

94,582

Estimated living today

77,000

Median age today

32

Peak year

2000

Best rank

210th

Rank in 2025

455th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

499 / 94,083

How old the living Pedros are

born that year still alive today

Of the 94,582 babies given the name since 1880, about 77,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 6,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, Portuguese

and Portuguese Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος, from πέτρος (“stone, rock”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Pedros

• Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681)Spanish dramatist
• Pedro Sánchez (born 1972)Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
• Pedro Almodóvar (born 1949)Spanish filmmaker
• Pedro I of Brazil (1798–1834)Emperor of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in 1826
• Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467–1520)Portuguese military commander and explorer (c.1467/8 – c.1521)
• Pedro II of Brazil (1825–1891)2nd and final Emperor of Brazil (r. 1831–89)
• Pedro Pascal (born 1975)Chilean and American actor
• Pedro III of Portugal (1717–1786)king of Portugal

People named Pedro with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Pedro is most common

• TX28,417
• CA23,244
• NY8,285
• FL4,264
• IL3,726
• AZ3,188
• NJ2,384
• NM1,635
• MA1,410
• PA1,104

Relative to how many babies each state records, Pedro is most concentrated in Texas (4.1×), New Mexico (3.4×), Arizona (2.9×), California (2.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2000

The most popular boys’ names the year Pedro peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Matthew
• Joshua
• Christopher
• Nicholas

All the names of 2000

Pedro elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Pedro: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Pedro is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.08% of children were given it – 30 of them.

Pedro: rank by region

In 2020, Pedro was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Pedro was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Pedro by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Pedro among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Pedro lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 199,883 men called Pedro were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Peder

Pedro against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Pedro vs Peder

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