Given name & surname
Piet
“as solid and strong as a rock”
Piet is a form of Peter. One Greek interpretation is “as solid and strong as a rock.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Piet is a form of Peter. One Greek interpretation is “as solid and strong as a rock.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Piet is a form of Peter. Peter has been associated with Greek, Aramaic, and Scottish Gaelic naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Afrikaans usage, Piet is a diminutive of Pieter.
Piet’s family of names
In Afrikaans usage, Piet is a diminutive of Pieter. Piet shares a linguistic root with Peter. In Afrikaans usage, Piet has a conventional naming counterpart in the English form Pete.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Piet has relatives in 4 languages.
5 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 34
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Pedroequivalent
- Pierreequivalent
- Peteequivalent · English
- Pietroequivalent
- Pieroequivalent
- Petarequivalent
- Petrosequivalent
- Petrequivalent
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- Peerequivalent
- Petterequivalent
- PiotrPolish
- Peruequivalent
- Kepaequivalent
- Pederequivalent
- Perequivalent
- Petroequivalent
- Pjeturequivalent
- Pietariequivalent
- Pereequivalent
- Pēterisequivalent
- Peteloequivalent
- Petkoequivalent
- Petteriequivalent
- Pjetërequivalent
- Péterequivalent
- Peetuequivalent
- Petriequivalent
- Pjeterequivalent
- Pehrequivalent
- Péturequivalent
- Peroequivalent
- Peeterequivalent
- Petruequivalent
- Петърequivalent
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Piet
- Piet MondrianDutch painter (1872–1944)
- Piet de Jongprime minister of the Netherlands (1915–2016)
- Piet Hein20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet (1905–1996)
- Piet KeizerDutch footballer (1943–2017)
- Piet SchrijversDutch association football player (1946–2022)
- Piet Pieterszoon HeinDutch admiral (1578-1629)1577–1629
- Piet JoubertSouth African politician and general (1834–1900)
- Piet VelthuizenDutch footballerborn 1986
- Piet RetiefAfrikaner pioneer (1780–1838)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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