Entry № 8094 · Greek origin

Pero Pero — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PEH-roh /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Greek princess won by Bias"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient (Greek)

The meaning

A name that means "greek princess won by bias".

Pero (Πηρώ) was the Pylian princess, daughter of King Neleus. Her father set the cattle of Phylacus as the bride-price — won by the cunning Bias after his brother Melampus, the seer, was thrown in prison while trying to steal them.

Featured in Homer's Odyssey Book 11 and Pindar.

Greek princess won by cattle-rustling cunning.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Πηρώ

Transliteration: Pērṓ
Pronunciation: / ˈpɛr.oʊ /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Pero stands.

Pero does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Peros before her.

Real people

Pero

Greek mythological figure.

In fiction

Pero

Homer's Odyssey 11.

Names connected to Pero.

Numerology

The number behind Pero.

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pero reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.