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“pilgrim”
Language context for this entry: Italian
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01 / Meaning & origin
Pellegrino is a masculine given name documented in Italian. English Wiktionary records the meaning “pilgrim”.
Meaning: “pilgrim”
From pellegrino (“pilgrim”).
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United States, 1972: 5 boys (rank 4986).
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03 / By the numbers
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1944–2017 Spelling: PELLEGRINO
Recorded category boys
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Source: Attorney-General's Department, South Australia · South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
No rounding stated; amounts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1947 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1948 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1949 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1950 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1953 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1954 | 1 | 360 | observed |
| 1955 | 1 | 392 | observed |
| 1956 | 1 | 408 | observed |
| 1957 | 1 | 427 | observed |
| 1958 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1959 | 1 | 464 | observed |
| 1960 | 1 | 468 | observed |
| 1961 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1962 | 3 | 292 | observed |
| 1963 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1964 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1965 | 3 | 312 | observed |
| 1966 | 4 | 249 | observed |
| 1967 | 1 | 552 | observed |
| 1968 | 2 | 359 | observed |
| 1969 | 2 | 339 | observed |
| 1970 | 4 | 249 | observed |
| 1971 | 3 | 288 | observed |
| 1972 | 2 | 348 | observed |
| 1973 | 2 | 317 | observed |
| 1974 | 1 | 455 | observed |
| 1975 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1976 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1977 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1978 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1979 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1980 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1981 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1982 | 1 | 424 | observed |
| 1983 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1984 | 1 | 455 | observed |
| 1985 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1986 | 3 | 260 | observed |
| 1987 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1988 | 2 | 346 | observed |
| 1989 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1990 | 1 | 484 | observed |
| 1991 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1992 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1993 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1994 | 2 | 364 | observed |
| 1995 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1996 | 1 | 540 | observed |
| 1997 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | 2 | 368 | observed |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | 1 | 581 | observed |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | 1 | 657 | observed |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | 1 | 754 | observed |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “PELLEGRINO” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Pellegrino— “pilgrim”
The two Latin words, _per_ (through) and _ager_ (a field), were the source of _peregrinus_ (a traveller or wanderer), also the inhabitant of the country as opposed to the Roman colonist. The same word in time came to mean both a stranger, and above all, one on a journey to a holy place, when such pilgrimages had become special acts of devotion, and were growing into living allegories of the Christian life. This became a Christian name in Italy, because a hermit, said to have…
The two Latin words, _per_ (through) and _ager_ (a field), were the source of _peregrinus_ (a traveller or wanderer), also the inhabitant of the country as opposed to the Roman colonist. The same word in time came to mean both a stranger, and above all, one on a journey to a holy place, when such pilgrimages had become special acts of devotion, and were growing into living allegories of the Christian life. This became a Christian name in Italy, because a hermit, said to have been a prince of Irish blood, settled himself in a lonely hut on one of the Apennines, near Modena, and was known there as _il pellegrin_, as the Latin word had become softened. He died in 643, and was canonized as St. Peregrinus, or San Pellegrino; became one of the patrons of Modena and Lucca, and had all the neighbouring spur of the Apennines called after him.…
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter VI (Modern Names From The Latin), Section XIX (Town and Country) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.
Italian economist, politician and jurist naturalized French (1787-1848)
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Italian writer and gastronomist (1820–1911)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
