Petur
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pʰɛtʏr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petur is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).
- ISIceland1 in 260(measured from records)
- FOFaroe Islands≈1 in 9.2K
- DKDenmark1 in 64K
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.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 260 (inferred from the name graph)
1,349 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pétur in IS Iceland.
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)
- Old NorsePétr(measured from records)
- LatinPetrus(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΠέτροςPétros(measured from records)
- Ancient Greek rootπέτροςpétros“stone, rock”(measured from records)
From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).
Sources 2
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petur 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #87 | 1,349 | 1 in 260 | 1.4K | Pétur | 72 |
| DK Denmark | — | 92 | 1 in 64K | 92 | Petur | 49 |
| US United States | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | — | Petur | 46 |
| SE Sweden | — | 52 | 1 in 196K | 52 | Petur | 10 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 163K | 102 | Petur | 10 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #6 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | 137 | Petur | 11 |
1,349 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Petur 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 sga, Peter (apostle)
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)
- Pétur Sigurgeirssonb. 1919ISBishop of Iceland (1919-2010)
- Pétur Sigurðssonb. 1928ISIcelandic athletics competitor
- Pétur Einarssonb. 1940ISIcelandic actor
- Pétur Blöndalb. 1944ISIcelandic politician (1944-2015)
- Pétur Gunnarssonb. 1947ISIcelandic writer
- Pétur Guðmundssonb. 1958ISIcelandic basketball player
- Pétur Ormslevb. 1958ISIcelandic footballer
- Pétur Péturssonb. 1959ISIcelandic footballer
- Pétur Guðmundssonb. 1962ISIcelandic shot putter
- Pétur Sakarib. 1992FIFinnish organist
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FO Faroe Islands | Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024) | — | 137 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 102 | #7,658 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 92 | #1,514 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23 | #22,780 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 14 | — |
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 Petur mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Petur?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɛtʏr/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Petur a male or female name?
- Petur 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 Petur?
- In the etymology graph, Peter, Pedro and Pierre are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Petur have the most bearers?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Petur, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pétur.
- Where is Petur most common?
- Petur is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 260 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Petur?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1,349 people named Petur in 2026, about 1 in 260 residents.
- How common is Petur compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Petur is the 87th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Petur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peturThe 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, “Petur” — the 87th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.