Peter
For 2025 the count puts Peter at #187 nationwide, as settled as a name gets. The peak was 1957, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Peter carries
Peter · Greek
“stone”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Peter’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Peter, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Peter since 1880
Peter peaked in 1957 at #37; #187 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Peter is most common
The state that gives Peter most often, per boys born there, is District of Columbia (0.63% in 2025); Vermont and Wyoming are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Peter
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Melanie
#142 in 2025 · Greek
Andres
#200 in 2025 · Greek
Maisie
#233 in 2025 · Greek
Andrea
#235 in 2025 · Greek
Patrick
#235 in 2025 · Latin
Milan
#242 in 2025 · Greek
George
#126 in 2025 · Greek
Milo
#119 in 2025 · Greek
Browse: names starting with P · Greek names · all names
About Peter
How common is Peter today?
For 2025 the count puts Peter at #187 nationwide, as settled as a name gets. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Peter mean?
The gloss on record reads “stone”, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Peter?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Melanie, Andres and Maisie, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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