Peter

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
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

22 February

Denmark

29 April

Denmark

1 August

Norway

29 June

Finland (Swedish Language)

29 June

Sweden

29 June

Grammar

- 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
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[6]		0	16	62987	112253
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	50649	n.a
Norway[8]		0	0	2286	4329
Finland[9]		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]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[8]:

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