Given name · also Latin
Petteri
Petteri is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Russian. It is used in Finnish, Ingrian, and Votic.
Original LatinPetrus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Petteri comes from Latin, and ultimately from Russian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ingrian usage, Petteri developed from Petrus. In Finnish usage, Petteri developed from Petter.
Petteri’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Petteri has a diminutive in Pete. In Ingrian usage, Petteri developed from the Latin form Petrus. In Finnish usage, Petteri has a conventional equivalent in the English form Peter.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Petteri has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Petteri comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 37
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Petrusroot · Latin
- PeterEnglish, German
- Pedroequivalent
- Pierreequivalent
- Pietroequivalent
- Pieroequivalent
- Petarequivalent
- Petrosequivalent
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- Pieterequivalent
- Petrequivalent
- Peerequivalent
- PiotrPolish
- Peruequivalent
- Kepaequivalent
- Pederequivalent
- Perequivalent
- Petroequivalent
- Petterroot · Swedish
- Peteloequivalent
- Pjetërequivalent
- Péterequivalent
- Peetuequivalent
- Petriequivalent
- Petrasequivalent
- Pjeterequivalent
- Pehrequivalent
- Péturequivalent
- Peroequivalent
- 彼得Chinese
- Peeterequivalent
- Petruequivalent
- Pietequivalent
- Pjeturequivalent
- Pereequivalent
- Pēterisequivalent
- Petkoequivalent
- Pietaricognate · Finnish
People named Petteri
- Petteri KoponenFinnish basketball guardborn 1988
- Petteri NummelinFinnish ice hockey player and coachborn 1972
- Petteri LindbohmFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1993
- Petteri Wirtanenice hockey playerborn 1986
- Petteri NokelainenFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1986
- Petteri PennanenFinnish footballerborn 1990
- Petteri TaalasSecretary General of WMO, Director General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, professorborn 1961
- Petteri LehtoFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1961
- Petteri LaxFinnish long jumperborn 1985
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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