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Petter

“rock, stone”

Language contexts for this entry: Spanish, Swedish, Danish and 3 more

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No sourced pronunciation yet

Origin: Not established
6 language contexts: Spanish Swedish Danish +3 more
Follow the evidence: 6 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Petter

Petter is a masculine given name documented in Spanish, Swedish, Danish and 3 other languages. It is a form of Petrus, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “rock, stone”.

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “rock, stone”

Afkomstig van de Latijnse naam Petrus, dit van het Griekse woord petros, dit van het Aramese woord Kefa (steen, klip).

Sources for this account (6)

Dutch Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q15897204CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: PetrusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

02 / Across borders

Where Petter is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Petter’s connections around the world.

7 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2020: 5 boys (rank 12022).

Explore United States

4 of 10 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Petter

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 37; births; Rank #143
Peak year: 1990; 270 births

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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Petter in Norway, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	56	100	observed
1946	81	86	observed
1947	71	91	observed
1948	71	93	observed
1949	82	82	observed
1950	91	78	observed
1951	86	82	observed
1952	100	73	observed
1953	118	71	observed
1954	124	65	observed
1955	114	71	observed
1956	115	74	observed
1957	145	52	observed
1958	133	59	observed
1959	137	57	observed
1960	135	61	observed
1961	146	59	observed
1962	138	59	observed
1963	145	56	observed
1964	137	64	observed
1965	141	60	observed
1966	153	59	observed
1967	168	54	observed
1968	131	67	observed
1969	161	56	observed
1970	145	63	observed
1971	150	58	observed
1972	153	55	observed
1973	176	48	observed
1974	146	59	observed
1975	126	62	observed
1976	136	57	observed
1977	131	55	observed
1978	131	58	observed
1979	147	57	observed
1980	140	58	observed
1981	115	67	observed
1982	142	56	observed
1983	148	51	observed
1984	145	52	observed
1985	185	40	observed
1986	169	44	observed
1987	176	45	observed
1988	192	40	observed
1989	234	31	observed
1990	270	28	observed
1991	241	34	observed
1992	210	37	observed
1993	231	33	observed
1994	258	31	observed
1995	251	31	observed
1996	222	37	observed
1997	217	40	observed
1998	165	45	observed
1999	185	41	observed
2000	158	48	observed
2001	143	51	observed
2002	143	54	observed
2003	155	51	observed
2004	165	44	observed
2005	124	64	observed
2006	119	72	observed
2007	117	72	observed
2008	119	77	observed
2009	92	91	observed
2010	89	94	observed
2011	87	94	observed
2012	78	101	observed
2013	84	93	observed
2014	66	107	observed
2015	77	100	observed
2016	69	107	observed
2017	63	108	observed
2018	44	140	observed
2019	58	112	observed
2020	36	131	observed
2021	40	136	observed
2022	35	150	observed
2023	28	180	observed
2024	32	159	observed
2025	37	143	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Petter” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Petter Solberg
born 1974
Norwegian rally and rallycross driver
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Petter Northug Jr.
born 1986
Norwegian cross-country skier
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Petter Hansson
born 1976
Swedish footballer
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Petter Dass
1647–1707
Norwegian priest and poet
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Petter Adolf Karsten
1834–1917
Finnish mycologist (1834-1917)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Petter with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q15897204CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: PetrusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Sweden — grouped top 100 newborn calling names, 1998–2022
Statistics Sweden (SCB) · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Opening name…

About Petter

Petter is a masculine given name documented in Spanish, Swedish, Danish and 3 other languages. It is a form of Petrus, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “rock, stone”.

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “rock, stone”

Afkomstig van de Latijnse naam Petrus, dit van het Griekse woord petros, dit van het Aramese woord Kefa (steen, klip).

Sources for this account (6)

Dutch Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q15897204CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: PetrusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Where Petter is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Petter’s connections around the world.

7 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2020: 5 boys (rank 12022).

Explore United States

4 of 10 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Petter

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 37; births; Rank #143
Peak year: 1990; 270 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Petter in Norway, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	56	100	observed
1946	81	86	observed
1947	71	91	observed
1948	71	93	observed
1949	82	82	observed
1950	91	78	observed
1951	86	82	observed
1952	100	73	observed
1953	118	71	observed
1954	124	65	observed
1955	114	71	observed
1956	115	74	observed
1957	145	52	observed
1958	133	59	observed
1959	137	57	observed
1960	135	61	observed
1961	146	59	observed
1962	138	59	observed
1963	145	56	observed
1964	137	64	observed
1965	141	60	observed
1966	153	59	observed
1967	168	54	observed
1968	131	67	observed
1969	161	56	observed
1970	145	63	observed
1971	150	58	observed
1972	153	55	observed
1973	176	48	observed
1974	146	59	observed
1975	126	62	observed
1976	136	57	observed
1977	131	55	observed
1978	131	58	observed
1979	147	57	observed
1980	140	58	observed
1981	115	67	observed
1982	142	56	observed
1983	148	51	observed
1984	145	52	observed
1985	185	40	observed
1986	169	44	observed
1987	176	45	observed
1988	192	40	observed
1989	234	31	observed
1990	270	28	observed
1991	241	34	observed
1992	210	37	observed
1993	231	33	observed
1994	258	31	observed
1995	251	31	observed
1996	222	37	observed
1997	217	40	observed
1998	165	45	observed
1999	185	41	observed
2000	158	48	observed
2001	143	51	observed
2002	143	54	observed
2003	155	51	observed
2004	165	44	observed
2005	124	64	observed
2006	119	72	observed
2007	117	72	observed
2008	119	77	observed
2009	92	91	observed
2010	89	94	observed
2011	87	94	observed
2012	78	101	observed
2013	84	93	observed
2014	66	107	observed
2015	77	100	observed
2016	69	107	observed
2017	63	108	observed
2018	44	140	observed
2019	58	112	observed
2020	36	131	observed
2021	40	136	observed
2022	35	150	observed
2023	28	180	observed
2024	32	159	observed
2025	37	143	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Petter Solberg
born 1974
Norwegian rally and rallycross driver
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Petter Northug Jr.
born 1986
Norwegian cross-country skier
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Petter Hansson
born 1976
Swedish footballer
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Petter Dass
1647–1707
Norwegian priest and poet
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Petter Adolf Karsten
1834–1917
Finnish mycologist (1834-1917)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q15897204CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: PetterCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: PetrusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Sweden — grouped top 100 newborn calling names, 1998–2022
Statistics Sweden (SCB) · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Petter

Meaning in the sources

Where Petter is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Petter Solberg

Petter Northug Jr.

Petter Hansson

Petter Dass

Petter Adolf Karsten

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Petter

Meaning in the sources

Where Petter is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Petter Solberg

Petter Northug Jr.

Petter Hansson

Petter Dass

Petter Adolf Karsten

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page