Given name
Pēteris
Pēteris is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Latvian usage, Pēteris developed from Πέτρος.
Pēteris’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Pēteris shares a linguistic root with the English form Peter. In Latvian usage, Pēteris has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Piotr. In Latvian usage, Pēteris has a conventional equivalent in the English form Peter.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Pēteris has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Pēteris comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 41
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Petercognate · English, German
- Pedroequivalent
- Pierreequivalent
- PietroItalian
- Pieroequivalent
- Petarequivalent
- Petrosequivalent
- Pieterequivalent
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- Peerequivalent
- Petterequivalent
- PiotrPolish
- PetrusDutch
- PetrCzech
- Peruequivalent
- Kepaequivalent
- Pederequivalent
- Perequivalent
- Petroequivalent
- Peteloequivalent
- Petkoequivalent
- Petteriequivalent
- Pjetërequivalent
- Péterequivalent
- Peetuequivalent
- Petriequivalent
- Petrasequivalent
- Պետրոսequivalent
- Pjeterequivalent
- Pehrequivalent
- Péturequivalent
- Peroequivalent
- 彼得Chinese
- Pyotrequivalent
- Peeterequivalent
- Petruequivalent
- Пётрequivalent
- Pietequivalent
- Pjeturequivalent
- Pietariequivalent
- Pereequivalent
- Πέτροςroot · Ancient Greek
People named Pēteris
- Pēteris VasksLatvian composer (born 1946)
- Pēteris JuraševskisPrime Minister of Latvia (1872-1945)
- Pēteris SkudraLatvian ice hockey coach and former goaltender (born 1973)
- Pēteris KalniņšLatvian lugerborn 1988
- Pēteris PlakidisLatvian musician1947–2017
- Pēteris BarisonsLatvian composer and conductor (1904–1947)
- Pēteris RadziņšLatvian military officer1880–1930
- Pēteris Pētersonsplaywright (1923-1998)
- Pēteris Struppepolitician (1889-1937)
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Péricles
“far-famed”
>99% boys
Piterà
“husk, bran”
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Pedru
“stone, rock”
>99% boys
Potitius
“water, nourish”
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