Pedro is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Peter, an English and German name. It is derived from the Greek name Petros meaning ‘stone, rock’.
Pedro is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Pedro isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Pedro ranks 369. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Pedro. In the entire USA, approximately 87,438 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Pedro. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Pedro is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Pedro and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Pedro, you can simply say:
Pig
Elephant
Dinosaur
Rocket
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Pedro
Pedro
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
E
D
R
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
E
D
R
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Pedro sounds like this:
