Pétter

given name · Latin script

Pétter is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch and German Ludewig, a variant of the personal name Peter.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 540(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 983
  • FIFinland1 in 3.1K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

10,379 people

Sources
18 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 540 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Petter in NO Norway, SE Sweden.

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)

Borrowed from Dutch and German Ludewig, a variant of the personal name Peter.

Sources 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pétter 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.

Where Pétter is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden10,3791 in 98310KPetter6
NO Norway10,1181 in 54036KPetter8
FI Finland1,8251 in 3.1K6.9K—1
BR Brazil4621 in 458K462——
US United States3821 in 871K658—3
DK Denmark801 in 73K80——
UY Uruguay171 in 199K17——

10,379 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pétter under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pétter mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Dutch and German Ludewig, a variant of the personal name Peter. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Pétter a male or female name?
Pétter 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.
In which country does Pétter have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Pétter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petter.
Where is Pétter most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pétter is densest in Norway — about 1 in 540 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pétter?
In Sweden, the national register counted 10,379 people named Pétter, about 1 in 983 residents.

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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, “Pétter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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