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The petro Surname

petro Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian: from a dialect form of the personal name Pietro (from Latin Petrus).
  2. Greek: shortened form of Petropoulos or some other derivative of Petros, Greek form of Peter.
  3. Dutch: variant of Petrus.
  4. Hungarian (Petro): from a pet form of the personal name Péter (see Peter).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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petro Family Facts

Distribution of petro Families in the US in 1920
Number of petro families
 92-181
 31-91		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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