Given name & surname
Peer
Peer is a masculine given name. It is used in Danish and Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Peer is a form of Per. Per comes from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Peer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24
- 24 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1970. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 509 as a first name in 2020; 3,555 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Peer’s family of names
In German usage, Peer has a related form in Peter. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Peer has a related form in Per. In German usage, Peer has a related form in Per.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Peer has relatives in 5 languages.
4 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 33
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Pedroequivalent
- Pierreequivalent
- Pietroequivalent
- Pieroequivalent
- Petarequivalent
- Petrosequivalent
- Pieterequivalent
- Pierequivalent
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- Petterequivalent
- Peruequivalent
- Kepaequivalent
- Petrusequivalent
- Pederequivalent
- Petroequivalent
- Piotrequivalent
- Petrequivalent
- Péturequivalent
- Peroequivalent
- Peeterequivalent
- Petruequivalent
- Pietequivalent
- Pjeturequivalent
- Pereequivalent
- Pēterisequivalent
- Petkoequivalent
- Petteriequivalent
- Peteloequivalent
- Pjetërequivalent
- Péterequivalent
- Petriequivalent
- Petrasequivalent
- Պետրոսequivalent
- Pjeterequivalent
People named Peer
- Peer SteinbrückGerman politicianborn 1947
- Peer KlugeGerman footballerborn 1980
- Peer RabenGerman composer and actor (1940–2007)
- Peer HultbergAuthor, psychoanalyst (1935-2007)
- Peer KoopmeinersDutch association football playerborn 2000
- Peer AugustinskiGerman actor (1940–2014)
- Peer Mobergsailorborn 1971
- Peer BorskySwiss fencerborn 1990
- Peer NielsenDanish canoe racerborn 1942
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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