Given name & surname

Peet

Peet is a given name from Middle English. It is used in English and Estonian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Peet comes from Middle English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Estonian usage, Peet is a diminutive of PEETER. In Estonian usage, Peet is a diminutive of Peetrus.

Peet’s family of names

In Estonian usage, Peet is a diminutive of PEETER. In Estonian usage, Peet has a conventional naming counterpart in the English form Pete. In Estonian usage, Peet is a diminutive of Peetrus.

Walk Peet’s family in the name graph

PeetPeterPeeterPeetsPeetrusPete

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Peet has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Middle English roots to each of them.

EstonianMiddle English

5 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 4

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Peet

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

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Middle English · Biblical

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“terror” · “dread”

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Middle English

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Middle English

Peddie

Peddie is a surname from Middle English.

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Cumbric

Pentland

“confined, enclosed”

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Old French and Middle English

Pentecost

Pentecost is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Old French and Middle English.

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Middle English

Pedler

“hawker, peddler”

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Middle English

Tippett

Tippett is a surname from Middle English.

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Germanic

Cuppett

“top, summit, crown of the head”

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Peet’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.