Peregrino as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Peregrino

What is the meaning of the name Peregrino ?

The baby name Peregrino is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced /peɾeˈɡɾino/ (peh-reh-GREE-noh).

Peregrino is Italian, Latin in Origin.

From Latin Peregrinus, “wanderer/foreigner” and by extension “pilgrim,” Peregrino is the Spanish and Portuguese masculine form (also seen in Italian, though Pellegrino is more common). The name spread with medieval pilgrimage culture and the veneration of saints called Peregrinus, including St. Peregrine Laziosi of Forlì, a 13th‑century Servite revered as a patron for those with cancer, and early martyrs such as Peregrinus of Auxerre. It appears in monastic and municipal records across Iberia and Italy, later persisting as a rare given name and more frequently as a devotional or symbolic epithet.

International variants include English Peregrine, Italian Pellegrino, Catalan Pelegrí, French Pérégrin, German/Czech/Slovak Peregrin, and Polish Peregryn; the Latin Peregrinus underlies them all. Feminine forms are Peregrina (Spanish/Portuguese) and Pellegrina (Italian). Nicknames range from Perry (English) to Rino (Italian). The name evokes journeying, faith, and a sense of purposeful wandering.