Peter

Greek

"rock, stone"

Peter Origin and Meaning

Variation of Panos

Peter Rank in US Top 1000

# 192 in the US

Peter Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 139 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Peter

• 192 US 2024
• 139 Nameberry 2025
• 196 Canada 2023
• 264 Future 2028
• 289 England 2024
• 185 scotland 2024
• 86 Ireland 2018
• 245 Germany 2016
• 88 slovenia 2021

20 Names Similar to Peter

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Famous People Named Peter

• Saint Peter Martyr of Verona Italian martyr
• Peter I aka Peter the Great (born Peter Alekseyevich) Russian Emperor
• Peter II Alexeyevich Russian Emperor
• Peter III (born Karl Peter Ulrich) Russian Emperor
• Peter I King of Serbia
• Peter II last King of Yugoslavia
• Peter I and II Kings of Portugal
• Peter I and II Kings of Cyprus
• Peter I and II Emperors of Bulgaria
• Peter I III, Kings of Aragon
• Peter I VII, Popes of Alexandria
• Peter Prince of Greece and Denmark
• Peter Seamus O'Toole British actor
• Richard Henry "Peter" Sellers English actor
• Pyotr Alexeyevich "Peter" Kropotkin Russian revolutionary
• Peter James Crouch English footballer
• Peter Wilton Cushing English actor
• Peter Press "Pete" Maravich American basketball player
• Peter 'Pete' O'Hanlon bassist from Irish band The Strypes
• Peter Andreas Thiel American billionaire founder of PayPal
• Peter Michael Falk American Actor
• Peter Facinelli American actor
• (John) Peter Sarsgaard American actor
• Peter Gene Hernandez birth name of Bruno Mars, American pop singer
• Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townsend English musician of The Who
• Peter Robert Jackson New Zealand film director/producer/screenwriter
• Peter Brian Gabriel English musician
• Peter Bogdanovich American film director
• Peter Lawrence Boyle American actor
• Peter Szymon Serafinowicz British actor
• Peter Kenneth Frampton English,American musician
• Peter Hayden Dinklage American actor
• Peter Henry Fonda American actor
• Peter Onorati American actor
• Peter Alexander Ustinov English actor
• Peter Alexis Shukoff aka Nice Peter Youtube personality of "Epic Rap Battles of History"
• Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings Canadian,American TV journalist
• Peter Lewis Kingston "Pete" Wentz III American bassist for Fall Out Boy
• Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein) Slovakian,American actor
• Peter Tosh (born Winston Hubert McIntosh) Jamaican reggae musician
• Peter Soyer Beagle American novelist
• Peter Dougan Capaldi Scottish Actor
• Peter Jacobson American actor
• Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet German mathematician
• Peter Tait Scottish mathematical physicist
• Peter Yarrow American singer,songwriter of Peter, Paul and Mary
• Peter Tork stage name of Peter Halsten Thorkelson, American musician of The Monkees
• Peter Joseph William Debye Dutch,American physicist & chemist
• (Randolph) Peter "Pete" Best English original drummer for The Beatles
• Peter Van Pels aka Peter Van Daan German,Dutch boy who appeared in The Diary of Anne Frank
• Peter Andrew Furler Australian Former lead singer of Newsboys
• Peter DaCunha Canadian actor
• Peter Ognibene American child model; twin brother of Caroline
• Peter "Pete" Zamperini brother of WWII POW Louis Zamperini
• Peter Arne Jöback Swedish musician
• Peter Colbert son of Stephen Colbert & Evelyn McGee,Colbert
• Peter Gilyard son of former American actor Clarence Gilyard
• Peter Cunnah Irish musician of the group D,Ream
• Peter Mark Andrew Phillips British royal, son of Princess Anne
• Peter Allen Australian musician
• Peter Riegert American actor
• Peter Connelly (b. 2006) 1 year old British boy who died from child abuse in 2007

The name Peter in Pop Culture

• Peter Pan fictional character created by J. M. Barrie
• "Peter Rabbit " children's book by Beatrix Potter
• Peter Parker also known as Spider,Man, character in the Marvel Universe
• Peter “Pete” Brockman character in British sitcom “Outnumbered”
• Peter Jason Quill also known as Star,Lord, character in the Marvel Universe
• Peter Pevensie from C.S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" series
• Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew character from the "Harry Potter" series
• "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater," nursery rhyme
• Peter Brady middle son on "The Brady Bunch"
• Peter main character in "First Light," a novel by Rebecca Stead
• Peter “Pete” Beale father of Ian Beale in British soap opera “Eastenders”
• Peter Beale son of Ian Beale in British soap opera “Eastenders”
• Peter Barlow character from British soap opera "Coronation Street"
• Peter Bishop character on TV show "Fringe"
• Peter Clarkson antagonist in novel "Ten Things I Hate About Me"
• Peter "Pete" Brockman Dad in British Comedy "Outnumbered"
• Peter Joseph "Peejoe" Bullis character from movie "Crazy in Alabama"
• Peter Florrick character on "The Good Wife"
• Peter Griffin main character on TV's "Family Guy"
• Peter Hale character from MTV's "Teen Wolf"
• Peter Hayes character in "Divergent" series
• Peter Grant Kavinsky main character from "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," "P.S. I Still Love You" and "Always and Forever, Lara Jean" by Jenny Han
• Peter Garcia character in "Sims" series
• Peter Burke character on TV's "White Collar"
• Peter Graham chatacter in "Hereditary"
• Peter Kirkland personification of Sealand in anime "Axis Powers: Hetalia"
• Peter Malboro character in Quebec parody show "Le coeur a ses raisons"
• Peter Mills character on TV's "Chicago Fire"
• Peter van Daan pseudonym for Peter van Pels in "The Diary of Anne Frank"
• Police Sargent Peter Noakes character on series "Call the Midwife"
• Peter Port professor voiced by Ryan Haywood in web series RWBY
• Peter Prentice character from series "The Mindy Project"
• Peter Maximoff also known as Quicksilver, character in Marvel Universe
• Peter Porker also known as Spider,Ham, character in Marvel Universe
• Peter Petrelli character on TV show "Heroes"
• Peter Hastings Spencer Hastings' father in "Pretty Little Liars"
• Peter Shepherd boy character in "Jumanji"
• Peter the Panda Dr. Doofenshmirtz's ex nemesis in "Phineas and Ferb"
• Peter Bishop character on JJ Abrams TV series "Fringe"
• Peter Nureyev character on "The Penumbra Podcast"
• Peter Jerome character on the ABC Sitcom "Soul Man"
• Peter Lukas character on "The Magnus Archives"
• Peter Ratri main antagonist in the manga/anime series "The Promised Neverland"