Piero is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Peter, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Piero: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,872 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,872 in 1977; #4,111 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Piero in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,111 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #2,872.
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Piero: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,872 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 37 (2007).
In 2025, 26 US boys were named Piero, making it the 4,111th most common boys’ name of the year, up 187 places from #4,298 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 25 boys named Piero in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,872, reached in 1977. The most boys given the name in a single year was 37, in 2007. For comparison, it was #4,373 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Piero in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 9 babies. In all, 821 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 223 babies named Piero.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 223 US boys were named Piero; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 65,695 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Peter (591,531 babies since 1880), Pedro (94,582 babies since 1880) and Pierre (19,143 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Piero in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 26 | #4,111 |
| 2024 | — | — | 25 | #4,298 |
| 2023 | — | — | 30 | #3,779 |
| 2022 | — | — | 36 | #3,325 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,201 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,903 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,506 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #5,059 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,253 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #7,036 |
| 2015 | — | — | 23 | #4,373 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #5,012 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,926 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,562 |
| 2011 | — | — | 23 | #4,320 |
| 2010 | — | — | 12 | #6,991 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,256 |
| 2008 | — | — | 22 | #4,502 |
| 2007 | — | — | 37 | #3,122 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2005 | — | — | 15 | #5,508 |
| 2004 | — | — | 30 | #3,269 |
| 2003 | — | — | 27 | #3,423 |
| 2002 | — | — | 22 | #3,881 |
| 2001 | — | — | 20 | #4,079 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,984 |
| 1999 | — | — | 15 | #4,703 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,363 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,485 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,441 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,588 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,775 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,632 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,537 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,242 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,278 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,077 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,845 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,740 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,213 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,049 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,331 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,563 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,914 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,872 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,650 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,289 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,931 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,880 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,276 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,226 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,857 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,829 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,299 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #3,005 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,046 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).