Meaning & History
French form of Peter. This name has been consistently popular in France since the 13th century, but fell out of the top 100 names in 2017. It was borne by the philosopher and theologian Pierre Abélard (1079-1142), the scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827), the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), and Pierre Curie (1859-1906), a physicist who discovered radioactivity with his wife Marie.
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Rootpetra
Other Languages & CulturesPjetër (Albanian) Botros, Boutros, Butrus (Arabic) Bedros, Petros (Armenian) Peru, Petri, Peio (Basque) Piatro, Piotr (Belarusian) Peter (Biblical) Petros (Biblical Greek) Petrus (Biblical Latin) Per, Perig, Pierrick (Breton) Petar, Pencho, Penko, Petko (Bulgarian) Pere (Catalan) Botros, Boutros, Butrus (Coptic) Petru (Corsican) Petar, Pejo, Perica, Pero (Croatian) Petr, Péťa, Peťa, Petřík (Czech) Peder, Peter, Peer, Per (Danish) Peter, Pieter, Petrus, Pier, Piet (Dutch) Peter, Peers, Pete (English) Piers (English (British)) Petro (Esperanto) Peeter (Estonian) Petur (Faroese) Petri, Petteri, Pietari, Peetu, Pekka (Finnish) Pitter (Frisian) Petre (Georgian) Peter (German) Petros (Greek) Bitrus (Hausa) Pika (Hawaiian) Péter, Peti (Hungarian) Pétur (Icelandic) Peadar, Piaras (Irish) Pietro, Pier, Pierino, Piero (Italian) Pēteris, Pjotrs (Latvian) Pitter, Pit (Limburgish) Petruchio (Literature) Petras (Lithuanian) Petar, Petre, Pece, Pero, Petko (Macedonian) Piers (Medieval French) Petruccio (Medieval Italian) Petera (Māori) Pièrre (Norman) Peder, Peter, Petter, Peer, Per (Norwegian) Pèire (Occitan) Piotr, Piotrek (Polish) Pedro, Pedrinho (Portuguese) Petre, Petru, Petrică, Petruț (Romanian) Pyotr, Petia, Petya (Russian) Pedru (Sardinian) Peadar (Scottish Gaelic) Petar, Pejo, Perica, Pero, Petko (Serbian) Peter (Slovak) Peter (Slovene) Pedro (Spanish) Petro (Ukrainian) Pedr (Welsh)
Place Name DescendantSaint Pierre (French)
Same SpellingPièrre
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Entry updated October 6, 2024