Pero

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Pero (countable and uncountable, plural Peros)

1. A surname.
2. A comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pero is the 13544^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2239 individuals. Pero is most common among White (83.79%) individuals.

• Stoke Pero

• oper, pore, reop, repo, rope

An alternative form of bero (“bear, Cimbrian per”)

Pero

1. (Bavarian) a male given name, "Bear"

• Schatz, Josef, 1871-1950 (1907) Altbairische Grammatik, Laut- und Flexionslehre (Grammatiken der althochdeutschen Dialekte; I. Band.)‎^[1] (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, page 10

• Pêro (pre-1990 spelling)

From Old Galician-Portuguese Pero, itself from Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra) (compare pedra).

• Hyphenation: Pe‧ro
• Homophone: pero

Pero m

1. alternative form of Pedro

A hypocoristic form of Petar. First attested in the 13th century.

• IPA^(key): /pěːro/

Péro m anim (Cyrillic spelling Пе́ро)

1. a male given name

• “Pero”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025