Peeter
given name · Estonian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Peeter is a given name, most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script.
- EEEstonia1 in 436◐
- FIFinland1 in 99K
- LVLatvia1 in 269K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈283 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 68 ●
- 1 in 54K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
4.4K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Пеэтер in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Пеетер in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #44 | 9,732 | 1.3K rec. | — | 3.4K | Peeter | 68 |
| US United States | — | 952 | 682 rec. | — | — | Peeter | 62 |
| FR France | — | 271 | 196 rec. | — | — | Peeter | 63 |
| IN India | — | 258 | 153 rec. | — | 55 | Peeter | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 189△ | 41 rec. | 1 in 54K | 189 | Peeter | 22 |
| PE Peru | — | 165 | 144 rec. | — | — | Peeter | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 83 | 93 rec. | — | — | Peeter | 14 |
| RU Russia | — | 78 | 24 rec. | — | — | Пеэтер | 20 |
| DE Germany | — | 77 | 71 rec. | — | — | Peeter | 27 |
| CA Canada | — | 76 | 81 rec. | — | — | Peeter | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 71 | 26 rec. | — | — | Peeter | 23 |
| AU Australia | — | 67 | 69 rec. | — | 2 | Peeter | 27 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Estonian10K62%
- Finnish2.1K13%
- English8795%
- 5203%
- Dutch4643%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Estonian | 10,416 | 62% |
| Finnish | 2,094 | 13% |
| English | 879 | 5% |
| 520 | 3% | |
| Dutch | 464 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 132 |
| 2000 | 132 |
| 2001 | 131 |
| 2002 | 130 |
| 2003 | 131 |
| 2004 | 129 |
| 2005 | 129 |
| 2006 | 126 |
| 2007 | 124 |
| 2008 | 124 |
| 2009 | 123 |
| 2010 | 121 |
| 2011 | 119 |
| 2012 | 118 |
| 2013 | 122 |
| 2014 | 122 |
| 2015 | 121 |
| 2016 | 121 |
| 2017 | 120 |
| 2018 | 120 |
| 2019 | 119 |
| 2020 | 117 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Pieter Neefs the Elderb. 1568BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter (-1659)
- Pieter Meulenerb. 1602BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter (1602-1654)
- Pieter Thijsb. 1616BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter (1616-1677)
- Peeter Gijselsb. 1621BEFlemish painter (1621-1690)
- Pieter van Bredaelb. 1629BEnot in their usual nameFlemish painter (1629-1719)
- Peeter Põldb. 1878EEEstonian politician and educational theorist (1878–1930)
- Peeter Toomingb. 1939EEEstonian photographer, documentary filmmaker and journalist (1939-1997)
- Peeter Urblab. 1945EEEstonian film director and producer (born 1945)
- Peeter Simmb. 1953EEEstonian film director (born 1953)
- Peeter Rebaneb. 1973EEEstonian film director, producer and entrepreneur (born April 1973)
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●
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 3.4K | #31 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 3.4K | #31 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 647 | #1,846 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 189 | #5,453 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 135 | #2,362 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 132 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 132 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 131 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 131 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 130 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 129 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 129 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 67 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Peeter?
- We estimate roughly 283 people bear Peeter (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Peeter have the most bearers?
- Peeter is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled peeter.
- How common is Peeter compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Peeter is the 44th most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
- Is Peeter a male or female name?
- Peeter 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Peeter” — the 44th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.