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Pedro in Korean: 페드로

Pedro is written 페드로 in Korean and read “Pedeuro”. This is the spelling in the loanword usage list of the National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL), which sets Korea’s spelling standards. In US birth records for 2000–2025 it ranks No. 611.

Your name written in KoreanOfficial spelling
Read as: Pedeuro

Where the spelling 페드로 comes from

NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 페드로 for Pedro.

Wiktionary records Pedro as a name from Spanish, so it is read as a name in Spanish.

People in the list with this given name:

  • 산체스 (페레스카스테혼), 페드로 — Pedro Sánchez (Pérez-Castejón)
  • 보르다베리 (에란), 페드로 — Pedro Bordaberry (Herrán)
  • 알레그레 (사시아인), (페드로) 에프라인 — Alegre (Sasiain), (Pedro) Efraín

…and 1 more in the list.

Look up 페드로 in the NIKL list (Korean)

Sound by sound

pe페d드ro로

Why it is spelled this way

  • This looks like a name in Spanish, so the official Spanish spelling is shown first.
  • Matches the National Institute of Korean Language usage list.

What Pedro means

“stone”

From Ancient Greek πέτρος

Source: Wiktionary — Pedro · CC BY-SA 4.0

Pedro by the numbers

  • US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 611, 29,335 babies (0% girls, 100% boys).
  • NIKL usage list — people with the given name 페드로: 4.

Korean names for Pedro

These are the converter’s results for Pedro as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).

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Closest in sound among real Korean names.

김하늘Kim HaneulUsed for boys and girls · 43% sound matchNative Korean word: 하늘 = sky
김하루Kim HaruBoy’s name · 42% sound matchNative Korean word: 하루 = a day, 24 hours
김민우Kim MinuBoy’s name · 40% sound match

No surname given, so we picked 김, one of the three most common Korean surnames.

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Meaning

Korean names from what Pedro means.

Your name means: 돌 · stone (from Ancient Greek πέτρος)

김석Kim SeokBoy’s name
김민석Kim MinseokBoy’s name
김대석Kim DaeseokBoy’s name
김태석Kim TaeseokBoy’s name
김페드로Kim PedeuroYour name, Korean styleHangul-only name — no hanja

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Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics