Piso as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Piso

What is the meaning of the name Piso ?

The baby name Piso is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced PEE-soh.

Piso is Latin, Roman in Origin.

Piso is a Roman masculine cognomen of Latin origin, attested as Piso in Republican inscriptions and literary sources. Its usual etymology links it with Latin pinsere, to pound or crush, and the noun family behind pistor, a grinder, miller, or baker. On that reading the name began as an occupational or descriptive byname for someone associated with grinding grain; connections with pisum, pea, are weaker for the Roman personal name.

The name is chiefly known through the Calpurnii Pisones, a branch of the plebeian gens Calpurnia prominent from the second century BC into the early empire. Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, consul in 133 BC, and Gaius Calpurnius Piso, associated with the conspiracy against Nero in AD 65, fixed the cognomen in Roman political history. Later European use is mostly surname-based, with Italian Pisone and Spanish-accented Pisón among related forms; as a given name, Piso remains rare and antiquarian.