Petteri
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Petteri is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin Petrus. The place name is a calque from Russian Питер (Piter). Akin to Finnish Pietari, Petteri.
- FIFinland
- EEEstonia
- CNChina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Петтери in RU Russia, CN China.
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)
- LatinPetrus(measured from records)
- RussianПитерPiter(measured from records)
Ultimately from Latin Petrus. The place name is a calque from Russian Питер (Piter). Akin to Finnish Pietari, Petteri.
Sources 2
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petteri counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Petteri 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 izh, a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
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)
- Petteri Taalasb. 1961FISecretary General of WMO, Director General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, professor
- Hannu Lintub. 1967FInot in their usual nameFinnish conductor
- Tommi Korpelab. 1968FInot in their usual nameFinnish actor (born 1968)
- Petteri Orpob. 1969FIFinnish politician and the 47th Prime Minister of Finland
- Mika Aaltolab. 1969FInot in their usual nameFinnish political scientist (born 1969)
- Petteri Nummelinb. 1972FIFinnish ice hockey player and coach
- Juha Lindb. 1974FInot in their usual nameFinnish ice hockey player
- Janne Ahonenb. 1977FInot in their usual nameFinnish ski jumper
- Petteri Koponenb. 1988FIFinnish basketball guard
- Robinb. 1998FInot in their usual nameFinnish pop singer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
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 Petteri mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Latin Petrus. The place name is a calque from Russian Питер (Piter). Akin to Finnish Pietari, Petteri. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Petteri?
- In the etymology graph, Peer, Petri and Pero are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Petteri have the most bearers?
- Petteri is most frequently recorded in Finland, where it is most often spelled petteri.
- How common is Petteri compared with other names?
- In Finland, Petteri is the 593rd most common surname of 94,499 surnames 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/petteriThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Petteri” — the 593rd most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.