PETE
Gender: Masculine
Usage:English
Pronounced: PEET
Short form of PETER
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PIERS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: PEERZ, PEERS
Middle English form of PETER
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PETER
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovene, Slovak, Biblical
Pronounced: PEE-tur (English), PE-ter (German), PE-tur (Dutch)
Derived from the Greek Πετρος (Petros) meaning "stone". This is a translation used in most versions of the New Testament of the name Cephas (meaning "stone" in Aramaic) which was given to the apostle Simon by Jesus (compare Matthew 16:18 and John 1:42). Simon Peter was the most prominent of the apostles during Jesus's ministry and is considered by some to be the first pope.
This name was borne by Peter the Great, the czar of Russia who defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War in the 18th century. A famous fictional bearer is Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up in J. M. Barrie's play.
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PETA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Feminine form of PETER
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PETERKIN
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
From a surname, which was derived from a pet form of the given name PETER
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CEPHAS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Pronounced: SEE-fas
Means "rock" in Aramaic. The apostle Simon was called Cephas by Jesus because he was to be the rock upon which the Christian church was to be built. In most versions of the New Testament Cephas is translated into Greek Πετρος (Petros) (in English Peter).
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PETROS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek
Other Scripts: Πετρος (Greek)
Greek form of PETER
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PIKA
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hawaiian
Hawaiian form of PETER
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PETRA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek, Finnish, Czech, Slovene, Hungarian
Other Scripts: Πετρα (Greek) BR>
Feminine form of PETER. This was also the name of an ancient city in the region that is now Jordan.
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PETTERI
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Finnish form of PETER
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PEKKA
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Finnish form of PETER
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PETRI
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Finnish form of PETER
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PIETARI
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Finnish form of PETER used in the Bible.
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PEADAR
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, Scottish
Pronounced: PAD-ar
Irish and Scottish form of PETER
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PEDER
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Danish and Norwegian form of PETER
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PEHR
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish
Swedish pet form of PETER
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PETTER
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian
Swedish and Norwegian form of PETER
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PEDR
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh
Welsh form of PETER
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PEETER
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Estonian form of PETER
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PEIO
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Basque form of PETER
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PERU
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Basque form of PETER
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PER
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scandinavian, Breton
Scandinavian and Breton form of PETER
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PERE
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Catalan
Catalan form of PETER
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PETAR
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Петар (Serbian, Macedonian), Петър (Bulgarian)
Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian and Macedonian form of PETER
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PÉTER
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Pronounced: PAY-ter
Hungarian form of PETER
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PETI
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hungarian
Hungarian pet form of PETER
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PETERA
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Maori
Maori form of PETER
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PETR
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech
Czech form of PETER
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PETRE
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Romanian form of PETER
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PETRICA
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian
Romanian form of PETER
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PETRU
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Romanian, Corsican
Romanian and Corsican form of PETER
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PETRAS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
Lithuanian form of PETER
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PIET
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: PEET
Dutch form of PETER
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PETRUS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Dutch form of PETER
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PIER
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: PEER
Dutch form of PETER, used especially in Flanders.
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PIETER
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: PEE-tur
Dutch form of PETER
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PÉTUR
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Icelandic
Icelandic form of PETER
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PIETARI
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: PYAWTR
Polish form of PETER
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PYOTR
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Пётр (Russian)
Pronounced: PYOTR
Russian form of PETER
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PIERRE
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: PYER
French form of PETER. This name was borne by Pierre Renoir, a French impressionist painter, and also by Pierre Curie, a physicist who discovered radioactivity with his wife Marie.
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BEDROS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Armenian
Armenian form of PETER
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BUTRUS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: بطرس (Arabic)
Arabic form of PETER
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PIETRO
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: PYE-tro
Italian form of PETER, Pietro was the first name of the Renaissance painter known as Perugino.
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PIERO
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Italian form of PETER, Piero della Francesca was an Italian Renaissance painter.
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PETRONILLA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
From a Roman name, a feminine pet form of Petronius (see PETRONA). This was the name of a 1st-century Roman saint, later believed to be a daughter of Saint Peter.
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PETRONA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: pe-TRO-nah
From the Roman family name Petronius, which possibly derives from Latin petro, petronis "yokel".
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PETRO
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ukrainian, Esperanto
Other Scripts: Петро (Ukrainian)
Ukrainian and Esperanto form of PETER
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PEDRO
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: PE-dro (Spanish)
Spanish and Portuguese form of PETER. This was the name of the only two emperors of Brazil.
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PIERA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Italian feminine form of PETER
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