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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Rock, stone

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.

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