Peter (given name)

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title: "Peter (given name)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["masculine-given-names", "given-names-of-greek-language-origin", "english-masculine-given-names", "german-masculine-given-names", "dutch-masculine-given-names", "swedish-masculine-given-names", "norwegian-masculine-given-names", "slovak-masculine-given-names"] description: "Masculine given name" topic_path: "geography/germany" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(given_name)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Masculine given name ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox given name"]

Field	Value
image	Pope-peter pprubens.jpg
image_size	200px
caption	Saint Peter by Peter Paul Rubens (1610–1612)
name	Peter
pronunciation

| | gender | Male | | meaning | Stone/Rock | | languageorigin | Greek | ::

|image = Pope-peter pprubens.jpg |image_size=200px |caption=Saint Peter by Peter Paul Rubens (1610–1612) | name =Peter | pronunciation =

| gender = Male | meaning = Stone/Rock | region = | languageorigin = Greek | related names =

• Petter
• Pjetër
• Pater
• Pete
• Petey/Petie
• Peoter
• Pearce
• Petero
• Per
• Peta
• Petra
• Pierre
• Pedro
• Pier
• Piers
• Pieter
• Pietro
• Peadar
• Pere
• Kepa
• Peru
• Peio
• Boutros
• Peterson Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek Πέτρος, Petros (an invented, masculine form of Greek petra, the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic Kefa ("stone, rock"), the new name Jesus gave to apostle Simon bar Jonah. An Old English variant is Piers.

In other languages

The following names can be interpreted as Peter in English.

• Afrikaans: Pieter, Petrus
• Albanian: Pjetër, Për
• Amharic: ጴጥሮስ ("Ṗeṭros")
• Arabic: بطرس (Boutros), بيار ("Pierre," mainly in Lebanon), بيتر ("Peter," exact transcription)
• Aragonese: Pietro, Pero, Piero, Pier
• Armenian: Պետրոս (Bedros in the Western dialect, Petros in the Eastern dialect)
• Assamese: পিটাৰ
• Asturian: Pedru
• Azerbaijani: Pyotr
• Basque: Peru, Pello (diminutive), Pedro, Piarres, Harkaitz (Means "Rock" in basque), Arkaitz, Petri (Biblical), Kepa (neologism)
• Belarusian: Пётр (Piotr), Пятро (Piatro), Пятрусь (Piatruś)
• Bengali: পিটার (Piṭār), পিতর (Pitôr)
• Breton: Pêr
• Bulgarian: Петър (Petar), Пере, Перо (Pere, Pero), Петьо, Петю (Petyo, Petyu), Пеньо, Пеню, Пенко (Penyo, Penyu, Penko), Пельо, Пелю, Пелко (Pelyo, Pelyu, Pelko), Пешо (Pesho); Камен (Kamen) ("kamen, kamək" in Bulgarian means: stone)
• Catalan: Pere
• Cebuano: Pedro
• Standard Chinese:
  • Protestant: 彼得 (Bǐdé)
  • Catholic: 伯多祿 (Bóduōlù)
• Coptic: ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ (Ṗeṭros)
• Cornish: Peder
• Croatian: Petar, Pero, Periša, Perica, Pera, Pejo
• Czech: Petr, Péťa (diminutive)
• Danish: Peter, Peder, Per, Peer, Pelle
• Dutch: Pieter, Peter, Piet, Pier (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly.)
• Emiliano-Romagnolo: Pédor
• Esperanto: Petro
• Estonian: Peeter, Peep, Peetrus, Pavo, Peedo
• Faroese: Pætur, Petur, Per
• Filipino: Pedro, Pedring (diminutive)
• Frisian: Piter, Pier
• Finnish: Pietari, Pekka, Petri, Petteri
• French: Pierre (Note: the word for stone in French is also "pierre".)
• Galician: Pedro
• Georgian: პეტრე (Petre)
• German: Peter (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly.)
• Greek: Πέτρος (Petros)
• Guarani: Peru
• Gujarati: પીટર (Pīṭar)
• Gungbe: Pita
• Haitian Creole: Pierre (pronounced "Pyè")
• Hausa: Bitrus
• Hindi: Pathrus, पीटर (Pīṭar)
• Hebrew: פטרוס (Petros), פטר (literally Peter)
• Hungarian: Péter; Petya, Peti (diminutive)
• Icelandic: Pétur, Pési (diminutive)
• Indonesian: Petrus, Peter
• Irish: Piaras, Peadar
• Italian: Pietro, Pier, Piero (Note: the word for stone in Italian is "pietra".)
• Japanese:
  • Protestant: ピーター (Pītā)
  • Catholic: ペトロ (Petoro), ペテロ (Petero)
  • Biblical contexts: ペトロス (Petorosu)
• Kazakh: Петр (Petr)
• Khmer: Pathra
• Konkani: Pedru
• Korean: 베드로 (Bedro); less commonly, 페트루스 (Petrus); 피터 (Pitə)
• Lao: ເປໂຕ (Peot)
• Latin: Petrus
• Latvian: Pēteris
• Lingala: Petelo
• Lithuanian: Petras
• Lombard: Peder
• Low German: Petrus
• Luganda: Petero
• Luxembourgish: Pit, Pier
• Macedonian: Петар (Petar), Питер (Piter), Петре (Petre), Перо (Pero), Пере (Pere), Перица (Perica)
• Malagasy: Petera
• Malayalam: പത്രോസ് (Patrōs), പീരി ("Peeri" from Pierre)
• Maltese: Pietru
• Manx: Peddyr
• Māori: Petera, Pita
• Marathi: पेत्र (Petrə), पेद्रो (Pedro)
• Mongolian: Петр (Pyetr)
• Montenegrin: Петар (Petar), Перо (Pero)
• Nepali: पत्रुस (Patrus)
• Norman: Pierre
• Northern Sami: Pekka, Piera, Biera, Bierril, Bierža, Biehtár
• Norwegian: Peter, Petter, Per, Pelle, Peder
• Nahuatl: Pedro
• Occitan: Pèire, Pèir, Pèr
• Persian: Pedros, Pedrush
• Polish: Piotr. Diminutives/hypocoristics include Piotrek, Piotruś, and Piotrunio. Piotr has several name days in Poland.
• Portuguese: Pedro, Pêro (old Portuguese) (Note: The word for stone in Portuguese is "pedra".)
• Punjabi: ਪਤਰਸਨੂੰ (Patarasanū)
• Quechua: Pidru, Rumi
• Romanian: Petru, Petre, Petrică (diminutive), Petrișor (diminutive)
• Russian: Пётр (Pyotr), Питер (Piter), Петя (Petya) (diminutive), Петруха (Petrukha) (colloquial)
• Samoan: Petelo
• Sardinian: Pedru, Perdu, Pretu
• Scottish Gaelic: Peadair
• Serbian: Петар (Petar), Петер (Peter), Перо (Pero), Пера (Pera), Перица (Perica), Периша (Periša)
• Sicilian: Pietru
• Silesian: Pyjter, Piter
• Sinhala: Peduru
• Slovak: Peter, Peťo
• Slovene: Peter
• Spanish: Pedro
• Swahili: Petero
• Swedish: Peter, Petter, Peder, Per, Pehr, Pär, Pelle, Pälle
• Syriac: ܦܛܪܘܣ (Peṭrus)
• Tagalog: Pedro
• Tamil: Pethuru, Raayappar (in biblical contexts)
• Telugu: పేతురు (Peturu)
• (), เปโตร (Petro, in biblical contexts)
• Tongan: Pita
• Tswana: Petere, Pitoro
• Turkish: Kaya (rock), Kayahan (khan of rocks); Petrus, Petros (in biblical contexts)
• Ukrainian: Петро (Petro), Пітер (Piter), Петрик (Petryk) (diminutive), Петрусь (Petrus) (diminutive)
• Urdu: پتھر (Rock) or پیٹر (lit. Peter)
• Uzbek: Pyotr (as in Russian)
• Venetian: Piero
• Vietnamese: Phê-rô
• Võro: Piitre
• Welsh: Pedr
• West Frisian: Petrus
• Yoruba: Peteru
• Zulu: Petru

People named Peter (or commonly known as Peter)

Main article: List of people named Peter

References

References

1. "Peter | Origin and meaning of the name peter by Online Etymology Dictionary".
2. [https://www.eltribuno.com/salta/nota/2016-8-1-1-30-0-rumi-el-nombre-inca-de-las-rocas Rumi, el nombre inca de las rocas]

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