Pétur

given name · Latin script

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

Pétur 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: a male given name, equivalent to English Peter.

rarermore common
  • 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)

1,349 people, 2026

Sources
72 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 260 (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Petur in DK Denmark, US United States, FO Faroe Islands and 2 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)

a male given name, equivalent to English Peter

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pétur 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 Pétur is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IS Iceland#871,3491 in 2601.4KPétur72
DK Denmark—921 in 64K92Petur49
US United States—≈61 est.≈1 in 5.4M—Petur46
SE Sweden—521 in 196K52Petur10
NO Norway—≈33 est.≈1 in 163K102Petur10
FO Faroe Islands#6≈6 est.≈1 in 9.2K137Petur11

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pétur is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Iceland, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Petur, Petŭr

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Petur, Petŭr

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Petur

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019201940196019802000Pétur Sigurgeirsson, b. 1919Pétur Sigurðsson, b. 1928Pétur Einarsson, b. 1940Pétur Blöndal, b. 1944Pétur Gunnarsson, b. 1947Pétur Guðmundsson, b. 1958Pétur Ormslev, b. 1958Pétur Pétursson, b. 1959Pétur Guðmundsson, b. 1962Pétur Sakari, b. 1992

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 14 sources across 8 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 Pétur mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Peter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Pétur a male or female name?
Pétur 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 Pétur?
In the etymology graph, Peter, Pedro and Pierre are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Pétur have the most bearers?
In Iceland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Pétur, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pétur.
Where is Pétur most common?
Pétur is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 260 people carrying it.
How common is the name Pétur?
In Iceland, the national register counted 1,349 people named Pétur in 2026, about 1 in 260 residents.
How common is Pétur compared with other names?
In Iceland, Pétur is the 87th most common given name of 3,704 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, “Pétur” — the 87th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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