Boy name origins & meanings
- Latin : Rock, stone
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : from the personal name Pero, a variant of Piero, which is a French-influenced form of Pietro.
- Galician : from the personal name Pero, Galician equivalent of Peter.
- Portuguese : habitational name from any of the places called Pero in Portugal.
- Catalan (Peró) : pet form of the personal name Pere.
- In New England, probably an altered spelling of French Perrault.