Petter

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Nordic variant form of Peter (see Pétr) ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Behtter	♂
Pette	♂
Petter	♂
Petteri	♂
Petti	♂

Name Days

Finland

29 June

Norway

29 June

Finland (Swedish Language)

29 June

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[4]		0	0	7806	10139
Sweden[5]		0	0	5202	9830
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	96	n.a
Finland[7]		n.a.	2	n.a	6608
#: 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^[5][6][4][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [4] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi