Pero Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

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Family name meaning

Ask a genealogist about Pero and the first name they will mention is Perotti. Its meaning, shared with Perotti, is “Little Peter”.

Before spelling was fixed, Perotti was also written Pero. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Perotto. 2,239 Americans were listed as Pero in the 2010 census. French birth records list 572 children named Pero between 1891 and 2000. There were 27 such births in the 1890s and 59 in the 1990s.

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