Given name & surname
Pellegrino
“one who travels; a wanderer”
Pellegrino is a form of Peregrine. One Latin interpretation is “one who travels; a wanderer.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Pellegrino is a form of Peregrine. One Latin interpretation is “one who travels; a wanderer.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Pellegrino is a form of Peregrine. A possible origin is Latin, although the derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Italian use, Pellegrino is used as a form of Peregrine.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pellegrino through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 97
- 97 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1972. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 185 as a first name in 2020; 7,013 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pellegrino’s family of names
Pellegrino shares a linguistic root with Peregrine. In Italian usage, Pellegrino has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Peregryn. Pellegrino is a form of Peregrine.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pellegrino
- Pellegrino RossiItalian economist, politician and jurist naturalized French (1787-1848)
- Pellegrino TibaldiItalian painter and architect (1527-1596)
- Pellegrino MatarazzoAmerican soccer coachborn 1977
- Pellegrino ArtusiItalian writer and gastronomist (1820–1911)
- Pellegrino MatteucciItalian explorer1850–1881
- Pilgrimbishop of Cologne1000–1036
- Pellegrino AretusiItalian painter (1460-1523)
- Pellegrino TurriItalian inventor1800–1900
- Pellegrino MoranoNew York City crime boss1877–2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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