Likable choice for history-minded parents who might want to honor Irish patriot Charles Parnell.

To honor an ancestral Peter.

Patterson is an upscale name worth considering if you're looking to continue a line of Peters, but soundalike Paterson is a downscale city in New Jersey.

To honor an ancestral Peter.

One of many common surnames that was derived from Peter, along with Peterson, Parks, Parkinson, and Perkins.

Perkin sounds a bit Hobbit-ish as a full name, but it might make a good honor name or nickname for a boy called Peter.

Paterson is a surname-name to continue a line of Peters and also the name of a city in New Jersey, hometown of poets William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg.