Pete
About Pete
Sixties-style short form that sounds cool again -- though the unscrupulous Pete on "Mad Men" is not a character to emulate.
Pronounced PEET.
As of October 2026, Pete ranked #2382 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #173 in 1908.
Editor's take: The name Pete is a boy's name meaning "rock".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,038 | 70 | 36.4 |
| 2015 | #2,202 | 62 | 32.3 |
| 2016 | #2,581 | 49 | 25.8 |
| 2017 | #2,333 | 56 | 30.3 |
| 2018 | #2,277 | 60 | 33 |
| 2019 | #2,837 | 44 | 24.5 |
| 2020 | #2,536 | 51 | 29.5 |
| 2021 | #2,367 | 58 | 33.2 |
| 2022 | #2,508 | 55 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | #2,501 | 54 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | #3,076 | 40 | 23.2 |
| 2025 | #2,382 | 58 | 34 |
Similar names
These 20 names were selected by our users looking for other names like Pete.
- Ted
- Marty
- Stanford
- Earl
- Abe
- Bernie
- Eddie
- Melvin
- Ernie
- Bobby
- Norman
- Barney
- Rodney
- Freddy
- Bucky
- Howie
- Stan
- Wally
- Stuart
- Marvin
Pete on lists
Famous Petes
- Pete Burns
English singer and songwriter, particularly known for being the frontman of the band "Dead or Alive"
- Peter Edward "Pete" Rose
American baseball player
- Randolph Peter "Pete" Best
English drummer for the Beatles replaced by Ringo
- Peter "Pete" O'Hanlon
Irish bassist of band The Strypes
- Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend
English rock guitarist of The Who
- Peter "Pete" Seeger
American folk singer,songwriter
- Petros "Pete" Sampras
American tennis player
- Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr.
American astronaut
- Peter Lewis Kingston "Pete" Wentz III
bassist of American rock band Fall Out Boy
- Peter "Pete" Davidson
American actor/comedian of "Saturday Night Live"
- Pete Bucknall
British singer & vlogger known as "petesjams" on YouTube
- Alexander Pete Schreiber
son of actors Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber
- Pete Holmes
American comedian
Pete in pop culture
- Pete Becker
character on FRIENDS
- Pete Campbell
character in TV's "Mad Men"
- Pete
main character in Disney's "Pete's Dragon"
- Pete
villainous character in Disney cartoons
- Stinky Pete the Prospector
character in "Toy Story 2"
- Pete Harper
character on TV's "Orange Is the New Black"
- Graffiti Pete
character in musical "In The Heights"
- Pete Twist
character on Australian TV show "Round the Twist"
- Pete Martinsburg
character in "Generation Dead"
- Pete Dunville
character on TV series "2 Guys, A Girl, & A Pizza Place"
- Pete Hornberger
character on TV series "30 Rock"
- Little Pete
character in Michael Grant's "Gone" series
- Pete Rooney
character on TV's "Liv and Maddie"
- Pete Wrigley
name shared by two brothers on TV's "The Adventures of Pete & Pete"
- Pete Thelman
character in "South Park"
- Pete Melman
character in "South Park"
- Pete
character in "South Park"
- Pete the Cat
book series and its main character
- Pete the Pup
dog in the Our Gang film series
- Pete
character in the movie Shaun of the Dead
- Old Puffer Pete
character on animated TV series Chuggington
- Pete Malloy
a main character on TV's "Adam,12"
- "Pete the Tramp
" comic strip by Clarence Russell and its main character
- Pete Wisdom
character in Marvel Comics
- Cordwood Pete
younger brother of American folk legend Paul Bunyan
- Pete
character in "Don't Look At It! Don't Touch It!" by Steve Patschke
- Pete
character in the Animal Crossing video game series
- "Power Pete
" video game and its main character
- Sneaky Pete
an Amazon Prime original crime/psychological/drama show
- "Cuban Pete"
a song popularized by Desi Arnaz
- Peter "Pete" Thornton
character on TV's "MacGyver"