Petér

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Petér 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: From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”).

rarermore common
  • 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)

≈850,000 people, est.

#109 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
662 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 72 (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PetérLatin(measured from records)
ΠετροςGreek(measured from records)
ՊետրոսArmenian(measured from records)
პეთრეGeorgian(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)

Derivation of Petér: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Petér
  1. Middle EnglishPeter(measured from records)
  2. Old EnglishPetrus(measured from records)
  3. LatinPetrus(measured from records)
  4. Ancient GreekΠέτροςPétros(measured from records)
  5. Ancient Greek rootπέτροςpétros“stone, rock”(measured from records)

From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”).

Sources 10

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Petér 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 Petér is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#6≈850,000 est.≈1 in 94listedPeter350
NG Nigeria#22≈760,000 est.≈1 in 281—Peter171
US United States#77464,3961 in 716464KPeter662
GB United Kingdom#20≈350,000 est.≈1 in 1907Peter465
AU Australia#9≈170,000 est.≈1 in 1464Peter391
HU Hungary#4135,6851 in 72136KPeter237
SE Sweden#18112,8721 in 90113KPeter196
AT Austria#8≈64,000 est.≈1 in 1399.6KPeter218
DK Denmark#245,7771 in 12846KPeter253

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); 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Petér 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 Petér mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 8 other sources.
Is Petér a male or female name?
Petér 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 Petér have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 853 thousand people named Petér in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peter.
Where is Petér most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Petér is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 72 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Petér?
In the United States, the national register counted 464,396 people named Petér in 2020, about 1 in 716 residents.
How common is Petér compared with other names?
In Germany, Petér is the 6th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.

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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, “Petér” — the 6th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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