Piero
Masculine · “rock”
Piero is the older Italian form of Peter, and the name is a nickname Jesus gives — Kephas in Aramaic, rendered into Greek as Petros, a rock.
How old is the name Piero?
Piero first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Piero alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 800 people named Piero are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Piero most popular?
Piero peaked in 1977, reaching #2791 nationally. Today it ranks #4050, 1,259 places below that high. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kepha to Piero
The story of Piero
Simon is renamed and the text gives the reason in the same sentence, which means the name entered European use as a piece of wordplay. Italian produced Pietro and the older Piero, which is the form Renaissance Florence used — Piero della Francesca and Piero de' Medici among them. It appears in American records with Italian families and remains distinctly Italian.
Meaning
rock, stone
From Greek petros, a stone, translating Aramaic kepha, a rock; the Gospel makes the play explicit, and the name was not in use before it — Peter is one of the very few names invented in a single recorded moment.
How the name formed
- kepha
- Petros
- Pietro
- Piero
Related forms: Pietro · Peter · Pedro · Pierre
Pronouncing Piero
PYEH-roh
Two syllables, first stressed; the ie is a single glide in Italian.
Nicknames for Piero
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1961
- Most boys named
- 200737 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2791reached in 1977
- Change vs 2024
- +4.0%26 in 2025, from 25
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Piero in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Pietro in Italian — spelling variant
- Peter in English — same name
- Pedro in Spanish — same name
- Pierre in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, New York.
Pieros among us
people named Piero are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 65,695 born in 2025 was named Piero
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Paddy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Piero's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Paddy climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Paddy's path sketches the road Piero is walking now.
Piero sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Piero is headed
Piero should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Piero beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Piero in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that the Gospel text explains in the moment it is given.
- Pete is available immediately as an ordinary English short form.
- Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- English speakers give it three syllables, which Italian does not.
- Pietro is the standard modern Italian form and Piero the older one.
- It is close to Pierre and Pedro, which are the same name in other languages.
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Frequently asked
- How many Pieros are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Piero are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Piero in 2025?
- Piero ranks #4050 among US boy names in 2025, with 26 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Piero?
- About 1 in every 65,695 US boys born in 2025 was named Piero — 26 in all.
- Will my child share the name Piero with classmates?
- Piero will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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