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Piero

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Boy · Greek, through Tuscan Italian

Piero

Say it: PYEH-roh

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Meaning

A Tuscan form of Pietro (Peter).

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

0510152018801900192019401960198020002020Peak 2007per million babies of that sex
  • 679 babies given this name since 1961
  • At its height in 2007, about 1 in 56,100 boys
  • 15 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
  2. The Renaissance1400 to 1600

Used by

Italian

Famous bearers

  • Piero della Francesca, painter
  • Piero de' Medici

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Where this comes from

  • Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.