Péter
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/peːtɛr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Péter is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Doublet of Pjotr.
- HUHungary1 in 72(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 90
- DEGermany≈1 in 94
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- #109 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 662 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72 (inferred from the name graph)
≈850,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Peter in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Doublet of Pjotr.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Péter counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #6 | ≈850,000 est. | ≈1 in 94 | 1 | Peter | 350 |
| NG Nigeria | #22 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 281 | — | Peter | 171 |
| US United States | #77 | 464,396 | 1 in 716 | 464K | Peter | 662 |
| GB United Kingdom | #20 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 190 | 7 | Peter | 465 |
| AU Australia | #9 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 146 | 4 | Peter | 391 |
| HU Hungary | #4 | 135,685 | 1 in 72 | 136K | Peter | 237 |
| SE Sweden | #18 | 112,872 | 1 in 90 | 113K | Peter | 196 |
| AT Austria | #8 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 139 | 9.6K | Peter | 218 |
| DK Denmark | #2 | 45,777 | 1 in 128 | 46K | Peter | 253 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Péter is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, to blow off, fart
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Peter, King of Hungaryb. 1011HUKing of Hungary (r. 1038–1041, 1044–1046)
- Péter Pázmányb. 1570ROHungarian Catholic cardinal, theologian and statesman (1570–1637)
- Peter Laxb. 1926USAmerican mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025)
- Péter Nádasb. 1942HUHungarian writer and photographer
- Péter Medgyessyb. 1942HUHungarian politician
- Péter Esterházyb. 1950HUHungarian writer (1950–2016)
- Péter Erdőb. 1952HUHungarian Roman-Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Budapest (1952-)
- Péter Szijjártób. 1978HUHungarian politician, member of the National Assembly of Hungary since 2002
- Peter Lekob. 1979HUHungarian chess player
- Péter Gulácsib. 1990HUHungarian association football player (born 1990)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 136K | #10 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 1.4K | #6 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2000 | 1.3K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2003 | 1.3K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2001 | 1.3K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2002 | 1.2K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2004 | 1.2K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2006 | 1.1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2007 | 1.1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2005 | 1.1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2008 | 1.1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2009 | 1K | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Péter mean, and where does it come from?
- Doublet of Pjotr. Recorded by Wiktionary and Családnevek enciklopédiája.
- In which country does Péter have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 853 thousand people named Péter in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peter.
- Where is Péter most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Péter is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 72 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- Is Péter a male or female name?
- Péter is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Péter?
- A machine transcription gives /peːtɛr/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- What are other forms of the name Péter?
- In the etymology graph, Pedro, Pierre and Pete are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Péter?
- In the United States, the national register counted 464,396 people named Péter in 2020, about 1 in 716 residents.
- How common is Péter compared with other names?
- In Germany, Péter is the 6th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Péter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A9terThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Péter” — the 6th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.