Peter

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Swedish form of Petrus

2) Younger form of Pétr

3) Younger form of Päter

4) Today this form is probably imported from the German form of Petrus, which is Peter

Related Names

See Petrus

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Peterinpoika
Petersen
Peterson
Peterssen
Petersson
Peterssonn
Peterssun
Peterssøn
Petersøn

Female

Peterdatter
Peterdotter
Peterintytär
Petersdatter
Petersdotter
Petersdóttir

Combinations

For combinations see PER (name element)

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Peter
Genitive:	Peters

- Faroese
Nominative:	Peter
Accusative:	Peter
Dative:	Peteri
Genitive:	Peters

- Finnish
Nominative:	Peter
Genitive:	Peterin
Partitive:	Peteriä

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

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Peter
Genitive:	Peters

- Swedish
Nominative:	Peter
Genitive:	Peters

Name Days

Denmark

22 February

Denmark

29 April

Denmark

1 August

Norway

29 June

Finland (Swedish Language)

29 June

Sweden

29 June

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1145 (patronym Peterssun) ; second part of the 14th century
• Denmark: 13th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 18th century
  
• Denmark: 1950-1969
• Sweden: 1960-1979

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Oslo
  • Akershus
• Denmark:
  • Sønderjylland
• Sweden:
  • Blekinge (19th century) see map
  • Öland (19th century) see map
  • Småland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Norway:
  • Peter Tordenskiold (né Peter Jansen Wessel, 28 October 1690 – 12 November 1720), Norwegian nobleman and an eminent naval flag officer in the service of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy
• Denmark:
  • Peter Willemoes (11 May 1783 – 22 March 1808), Danish naval officer
  • Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen (2 February 1886 – 2 September 1957), Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist
  • Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016), Danish computer science pioneer
  • Peter Høeg (born 17 May 1957), Danish author
• Faroe Islands:
  • Peter Mohr Dam (11 August 1898 – 8 November 1968), Faroese politician, prime minister of the Faroe Islands (1967-1968, 1959-1963)
• Sweden:
  • Peter Wallenberg (29 May 1926 – 19 January 2015), Swedish business leader
  • Peter Alexander Haber (born 12 December 1952), Swedish actor
  • Ulf Harry Peter Andersson (born 12 February 1953), Swedish actor
  • Peter Stormare (né Peter Ingvar Rolf Storm, born 27 August 1953), Swedish actor
  • Dan Peter Dalle (born 5 December 1956), Swedish actor, comedian, writer and film director

Trivia

• Peter was a heavy storm in Norway in December 1999.

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		61624	113601	0	32	61624	113569
Denmark		47665	n.a.	0	n.a.	47665	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	13424	n.a.	21	n.a.	13403
Greenland		596	2839	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		67	106	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		4836	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	4836	n.a.
#: 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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Peter (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.