Given name & surname
Petri
Petri is a surname from German. It is used in English, Finnish, Romanian, and Basque.
Original GermanPeter
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Basque usage, Petri developed from Petrus. In Basque usage, Petri developed from Πέτρος.
Petri’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Petri has a diminutive in Pete. In Finnish usage, Petri has a feminine form in Petra. In Finnish usage, Petri has a conventional equivalent in the English form Peter.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Petri has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Petri comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 34
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Pedroequivalent
- Petrafeminine form · Finnish
- Pierreequivalent
- PietroItalian
- Pieroequivalent
- Petarequivalent
- Petrosequivalent
- Pieterequivalent
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- Piotrequivalent
- Petrequivalent
- Peerequivalent
- Petterequivalent
- Pederequivalent
- Perequivalent
- Petroequivalent
- Petrusroot · Latin
- Pjeterequivalent
- Pehrequivalent
- Péturequivalent
- Peroequivalent
- 彼得Chinese
- Peeterequivalent
- Petruequivalent
- Pietequivalent
- Pjeturequivalent
- Pereequivalent
- Pēterisequivalent
- Petkoequivalent
- Petteriequivalent
- Peteloequivalent
- Pjetërequivalent
- Péterequivalent
- Пётрroot · Russian
- Πέτροςroot · Ancient Greek
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Petri
- Petri PasanenFinnish footballerborn 1980
- Petri KontiolaFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1984
- Petri LindroosFinnish heavy metal musician (born 1980)
- Petri VehanenFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1977
- Ilkka RemesFinnish author (born 1962)
- Petri Varisice hockey playerborn 1969
- Petri HonkonenFinnish politicianborn 1987
- Petri SkrikoFinnish ice hockey player and coachborn 1962
- Petri SarvamaaFinnish politician and journalistborn 1960
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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