Pēteris
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Peter (Biblical figure)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pēteris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 281(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 50K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pēteris itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 281 (inferred from the name graph)
6,687 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Петерис in RU Russia.
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)
Peter (Biblical figure)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pēteris 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.
6,687 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Pēteris is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Apustulis, sākotnēji saukts Sīmanis, ko katoļu baznīca uzskata par Romas pirmo bīskapu un pāvestus par viņa pēctečiem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Petros Adamianb. 1849TRnot in their usual nameArmenian actor (1849-1891)
- Petros Duryanb. 1851TRnot in their usual nameArmenian poet (1851-1872)
- Pēteris Stučkab. 1865LVLatvian-Soviet politician (1865-1932)
- Pēteris Juraševskisb. 1872LVPrime Minister of Latvia (1872-1945)
- Yan Karlovich Berzinb. 1889LVnot in their usual nameRussian politician and diplomat (1889-1938)
- Pēteris Strautmanisb. 1919LVpolitician
- Petros Markarisb. 1937TRnot in their usual nameTurkish-Greek writer of Armenian ancestry (born 1936)
- Pēteris Vasksb. 1946LVLatvian composer (born 1946)
- Pēteris Skudrab. 1973LVLatvian ice hockey coach and former goaltender (born 1973)
- Petros Avetisyanb. 1996AMnot in their usual nameArmenian football player
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 6.7K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 6.6K | #63 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 21 | #6,264 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 17 | #6,670 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Pēteris mean, and where does it come from?
- Peter (Biblical figure) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Pēteris a male or female name?
- Pēteris 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.
- What are other forms of the name Pēteris?
- In the etymology graph, Peter, Pedro and Pierre are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pēteris have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 6.7 thousand people named Pēteris, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pēteris.
- Where is Pēteris most common?
- Pēteris is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 281 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pēteris?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 6,687 people named Pēteris, about 1 in 281 residents.
- How common is Pēteris compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Pēteris is the 51st most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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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%C4%93terisThe 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, “Pēteris” — the 51st most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.