girls:
499 births since 1927
#5217 (9th percentile)
boys:
92.6k births since 1880
#325 (93rd percentile)
overall:
93.1k births since 1880
#723 (91st percentile)
The name Pedro is the #723 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 93,086 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #325 (92.9% percentile) for all time with 92,587 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,217 (8.7% percentile) for all time with 499 births since 1927.
Pedro has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1927 for girls).
The name Pedro has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Pedro reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 76.2% percentile (ranked #184) with 796 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 829 births per million (ranked 75.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Pedro ranks #386 for boys (57.7% percentile) with 411 births per million, which is 49.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Pedro reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #801) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pedro".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Pedro. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.1% confident that Pedro is pronounced as PEH-droh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PAY-droh, at 41.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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