Peeter
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Peeter is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 523(inferred from the name graph)
- LVLatvia1 in 269K
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 523 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Пеетер in FI Finland.
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 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peeter 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #21 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 523 | 3.4K | Peeter | 83 |
| SE Sweden | — | 189 | 1 in 54K | 189 | Peeter | 22 |
| US United States | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Peeter | 67 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Peeter | 28 |
| FR France | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Peeter | 66 |
| FI Finland | — | 56 | 1 in 99K | 647 | Пеетер | 20 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Peeter | 7 |
| LV Latvia | #324 | 7 | 1 in 269K | 7 | Peeter | 6 |
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: Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pieter Neefs the Elderb. 1568BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter (-1659)
- Pieter Meulenerb. 1602BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter (1602-1654)
- Pieter Thijsb. 1616BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter (1616-1677)
- Peeter Gijselsb. 1621BEFlemish painter (1621-1690)
- Pieter van Bredaelb. 1629BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter (1629-1719)
- Peeter Põldb. 1878EEEstonian politician and educational theorist (1878–1930)
- Peeter Toomingb. 1939EEEstonian photographer, documentary filmmaker and journalist (1939-1997)
- Peeter Urblab. 1945EEEstonian film director and producer (born 1945)
- Peeter Simmb. 1953EEEstonian film director (born 1953)
- Peeter Rebaneb. 1973EEEstonian film director, producer and entrepreneur (born April 1973)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Peeter a male or female name?
- Peeter 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.
- What are other forms of the name Peeter?
- In the etymology graph, Peter, Pedro and Pierre are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Peeter have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Peeter in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peeter.
- How common is the name Peeter?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 189 people named Peeter, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
- How common is Peeter compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Peeter is the 21st most common given name of 9,600 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Peeter?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peeterThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Peeter” — the 21st most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.