# Peto

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #86,626

## Definitions
1. A surname.
2. A town and municipality in the state of Yucatán, Mexico.

## Etymology
Two main origins:
* English habitational surname of Anglo-Norman origin for someone from Poitou, in France.
* Borrowed from Hungarian Pető, a pet form of the personal name Péter.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/peto