Pietro is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Peter, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Pietro: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,147 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,147 in 1974; #3,074 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pietro in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,074 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #1,147.
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Pietro: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,147 in 1974 · most boys in one year: 52 (1974).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Pietro, making it the 3,074th most common boys’ name of the year, up 594 places from #3,668 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 31 boys named Pietro in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,147, reached in 1974. That year also had the most boys given the name: 52. For comparison, it was #3,068 in 2015 and #2,962 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pietro in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 2,423 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 378 babies named Pietro.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 367 US boys were named Pietro; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 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 Pietro 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 | — | — | 40 | #3,074 |
| 2024 | — | — | 31 | #3,668 |
| 2023 | — | — | 41 | #3,046 |
| 2022 | — | — | 30 | #3,746 |
| 2021 | — | — | 44 | #2,849 |
| 2020 | — | — | 29 | #3,709 |
| 2019 | — | — | 33 | #3,478 |
| 2018 | — | — | 40 | #2,983 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,877 |
| 2016 | — | — | 37 | #3,145 |
| 2015 | — | — | 38 | #3,068 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,098 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,830 |
| 2012 | — | — | 29 | #3,689 |
| 2011 | — | — | 40 | #2,942 |
| 2010 | — | — | 38 | #3,061 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,803 |
| 2008 | — | — | 35 | #3,269 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,333 |
| 2006 | — | — | 28 | #3,662 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #4,027 |
| 2004 | — | — | 24 | #3,829 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,096 |
| 2002 | — | — | 22 | #3,882 |
| 2001 | — | — | 23 | #3,695 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,507 |
| 1999 | — | — | 30 | #2,845 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,764 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,434 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,811 |
| 1995 | — | — | 27 | #2,741 |
| 1994 | — | — | 21 | #3,304 |
| 1993 | — | — | 27 | #2,676 |
| 1992 | — | — | 26 | #2,727 |
| 1991 | — | — | 29 | #2,453 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,140 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,595 |
| 1988 | — | — | 28 | #2,235 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,315 |
| 1986 | — | — | 37 | #1,717 |
| 1985 | — | — | 25 | #2,210 |
| 1984 | — | — | 21 | #2,419 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,943 |
| 1982 | — | — | 34 | #1,727 |
| 1981 | — | — | 26 | #2,076 |
| 1980 | — | — | 31 | #1,841 |
| 1979 | — | — | 26 | #2,032 |
| 1978 | — | — | 26 | #1,951 |
| 1977 | — | — | 35 | #1,598 |
| 1976 | — | — | 39 | #1,448 |
| 1975 | — | — | 47 | #1,251 |
| 1974 | — | — | 52 | #1,147 |
| 1973 | — | — | 41 | #1,306 |
| 1972 | — | — | 29 | #1,630 |
| 1971 | — | — | 46 | #1,230 |
| 1970 | — | — | 37 | #1,391 |
| 1969 | — | — | 32 | #1,431 |
| 1968 | — | — | 31 | #1,417 |
| 1967 | — | — | 25 | #1,564 |
| 1966 | — | — | 20 | #1,747 |
| 1965 | — | — | 18 | #1,901 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,781 |
| 1963 | — | — | 19 | #1,880 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,098 |
| 1961 | — | — | 16 | #2,124 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,290 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,387 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,771 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,972 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,454 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,789 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,693 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,220 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,308 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,962 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,655 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,442 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,479 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,943 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,563 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,550 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,158 |
| 1931 | — | — | 11 | #2,436 |
| 1930 | — | — | 15 | #2,048 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,560 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #3,019 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,936 |
| 1926 | — | — | 13 | #2,396 |
| 1925 | — | — | 21 | #1,729 |
| 1924 | — | — | 27 | #1,478 |
| 1923 | — | — | 18 | #1,928 |
| 1922 | — | — | 20 | #1,811 |
| 1921 | — | — | 16 | #2,129 |
| 1920 | — | — | 18 | #1,944 |
| 1919 | — | — | 18 | #1,863 |
| 1918 | — | — | 23 | #1,582 |
| 1917 | — | — | 20 | #1,682 |
| 1916 | — | — | 21 | #1,584 |
| 1915 | — | — | 22 | #1,497 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,947 |
| 1913 | — | — | 12 | #1,654 |
| 1912 | — | — | 12 | #1,510 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,635 |
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).