Pìter

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pìter is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. Pìter is also written Πετρος in Greek, Պետրոս in Armenian and პეთრე in Georgian.

  • NLNetherlands1 in 62K(measured from records)
  • HUHungary1 in 72as Péter
  • SESweden1 in 90as Peter

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pìter itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈820,000 named Peter, est.

#109 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
662 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Pìter in other scripts: Latin, Greek, Armenian and 1 more

(measured from records)
PeterPìter in Latin(measured from records)
ΠετροςPìter in Greek(measured from records)
ՊետրոսPìter in Armenian(measured from records)
პეთრეPìter in Georgian(measured from records)

Locally spelled Peter in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 7 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Pìter counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pìter is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#6≈820,000 est.≈1 in 102listedPeter350
NG Nigeria#22≈710,000 est.≈1 in 328—Peter171
US United States#77464,396as Peter1 in 716464KPeter662
GB United Kingdom#20≈360,000 est.≈1 in 1937Peter465
AU Australia#9≈190,000 est.≈1 in 1404Peter391
HU Hungary#4135,685as Péter1 in 72136KPeter237
SE Sweden#18112,872as Peter1 in 90113KPeter196
AT Austria#8≈79,000 est.≈1 in 1179.6KPeter218
DK Denmark#245,777as Peter1 in 12846KPeter253
NL Netherlands#32791 in 62K82KPeter218

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pìter under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Pìter a male or female name?
Pìter is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Pìter?
Mondonomo estimates about 817 thousand people named Peter in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Pìter most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pìter is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 62 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pìter?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 279 people named Pìter, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
How common is Pìter compared with other names?
In Germany, Pìter is the 6th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pìter” — the 6th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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