Peter

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish form of Petrus [1] and modern form of Pétr [2] and Päter [3], both old Nordic forms of Petrus, but today this form is probably imported from the German form of Petrus, which is Peter [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Petrus

Combinations

For combinations see PER (name element)

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

22 February

Denmark Denmark

29 April

Denmark Denmark

1 August

Norway Norway

29 June

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

29 June

Sweden Sweden

29 June

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Peter
Accusative: Peter
Dative: Peter
Genitive: Peters

Further Information

Namesakes

Peter Alexander Haber (*12th December, 1952), Swedish actor

Peter Stormare (born Peter Ingvar Rolf Storm, *27th August, 1953), Swedish actor

Peter Høeg (*17th May, 1957), Danish author

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Sweden Sweden[6] Statimg f2.pngStatimg m5.png 0 16 62987 112253
Denmark Denmark[7] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m5.png 0 n.a. 50649 n.a
Norway Norway[8] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m4.png 0 0 2286 4329
Finland Finland[9] Statimg f2.pngStatimg m5.png n.a. 16 n.a 11410
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend[6][7][8][9]:Name statistics for Peter(m)


Norwegian historic statistics trend[8]:

Norwegian historic statistics for Peter(m)


Sources: [6] [7] [8] [9]

References

  1. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  5. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi