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Petrus

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Latin form of Greek πέτρος (pétros) = 'stone, rock' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Petros is a translation of the Aramaic name Kefas [1] [2] [3] [4] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

Peter ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Pether ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Old Swedish Swedish
Petri ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Petro ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Petru ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Petrus ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Old Swedish Swedish

See also:
Variant forms: Pedro, Peeter (Estonian), Peiter, Pero (Bulgarian), Petr (Czech), Pétr, Petros (Greek), Pierre, Pietari, Pieter, Pietro, Piita, Pitter
Pet forms: Pelle, Pete, Petja, Petka, Petu
Female forms: Petra

Combinations

For combinations see PER (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Petrus
Genitive: Petrus'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Petrus
Genitive: Petruksen
Partitive: Petrusta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Petrus
Genitive: Petrus'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Petrus
Genitive: Petrus' / Petrus

Name Day

Denmark Denmark

29 June

Finland Finland

29 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Bible

  • Byname of the apostle Simon

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 Sweden[11]
563 1737 0 13 563 1724
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 1486 0 0
n.a.
 1486
Greenland Greenland[13]
14 59
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[14]
41
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 41
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[15]
1 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
56
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 56
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Petrus (m) Sources: [11][14][16][12]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Petrus (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Petrus (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  10. ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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