Pedro

Pronunciation	Spanish: ['peðɾo] Portuguese: ['pedɾu, -ðɾu]
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Spanish, Portuguese
Word/name	Peter
Meaning	Rock
Region of origin	Spain, Latin America, Portugal, The Philippines
Alternative spelling	Pêro
Related names	Peter, Pierre, Boutros

Pedro (alternate archaic spelling Pêro) 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" (compare with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, and Peres in Galician and Portuguese, also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of Sri Lanka (where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pêro".

The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πετρα" meaning "stone, rock".

The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic Kephas or Cephas meaning "stone".

Pedro may refer to:

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