Pietro
The boy's name Pietro has been in the national records since 1909, with 2,423 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,036th. About 1,900 Pietros are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Pietro
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,423
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1974
- Best rank
- 1,135th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,036th
- First recorded
- 1909
How old the living Pietros are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,423 babies given the name since 1909, about 1,900 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 620 of them are children and 80 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 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.
Notable Pietros
- Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945)Italian composer known for operas
- Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956)Italian Military General Officer and Marshal of the Royal Italian Army from 1916-1943 during both World Wars and Prime Minister of Italy from 1943-1944
- Pietro Perugino (1448–1523)Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school
- Pietro Parolin (born 1955)Italian cardinal and Secretary of State of the Holy See
- Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782)Italian poet and librettist
- Pietro Aretino (1492–1556)Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer
- Pietro Bembo (1470–1547)Catholic cardinal and poet
- Pietro da Cortona (1596–1669)Italian painter and architect of the High Baroque
People named Pietro with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Pietro is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Pietro is most concentrated in New York (8.1×), New Jersey (3.0×), Massachusetts (3.0×), Florida (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1974
The most popular boys’ names the year Pietro peaked:
Pietro elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Pietro | 68,118 | — |
| France boys | Pietro | 1,630 | 252nd |
| Switzerland boys | Pietro | 388 | 350th |
| England and Wales boys | Pietro | 332 | 1,123rd |
| Belgium boys | Pietro | 240 | 668th |
| Italy girls | Pietro | 168 | — |
| Poland boys | Pietro | 48 birth registrations | 293rd |
| Ireland boys | Pietro | 15 | 509th |
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.
Pietro: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Pietro | 147 | 0.012% | 479th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Pietro | 70 | 0.016% | 278th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Pietro | 171 | 0.262% | 30th |
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, Pietro is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.26% of children were given it – 165 of them.
Pietro: rank by region
In 2022, Pietro was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Pietro | 353 | 8 |
In 2024, Pietro was among the 10 most common names in 3 regions of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Pietro | 6 | 3 |
| Veneto | Pietro | 6 | 311 |
| Liguria | Pietro | 7 | 72 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Pietro appears in the lists for Nord-est (9th).
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Pietro appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (241st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.
Pietro 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Pietro | 50 | 81 |
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 Pietro lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 912 men called Pietro 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Pietro | 84 | 0.158 | 619 |
| Palmas, Las | Pietro | 63 | 0.108 | 856 |
| Balears, Illes | Pietro | 63 | 0.101 | 706 |
| Barcelona | Pietro | 208 | 0.071 | 876 |
| Málaga | Pietro | 44 | 0.050 | 1,092 |
| Tarragona | Pietro | 20 | 0.046 | 1,307 |
Listed in 26 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 26 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Pietro against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.