Peter (given name)
Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek Πέτρος, Petros, which itself was a translation of Aramaic Kefa, the new name Jesus gave to apostle Simon bar Jonah. An Old English variant is Piers.
In other languages
The following names can be interpreted as Peter in English.- Afrikaans: Pieter, Petrus
- Albanian: Pjetër, Për
- Amharic: ጴጥሮስ
- Arabic: بطرس, بيار, بيتر
- Aragonese: Pietro, Pero, Piero, Pier
- Armenian: Պետրոս
- Assamese: পিটাৰ
- Asturian: Pedru
- Azerbaijani: List of [people named Pyotr|Pyotr]
- Basque: Peru, Pello, Pedro, Piarres, Harkaitz, Arkaitz, Petri, Kepa
- Belarusian: Пётр, Пятро, Пятрусь
- Bengali: পিটার, পিতর
- Breton: Pêr
- Bulgarian: Петър, Пере, Перо, Петьо, Петю, Пеньо, Пеню, Пенко, Пельо, Пелю, Пелко, Пешо ; Камен
- Catalan: Pere
- Cebuano: Pedro
- Standard Chinese:
- * Protestant: 彼得
- * Catholic: 伯多祿
- Coptic: ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ
- Cornish: Peder
- Croatian: Petar, Pero, Periša, Perica, Pera, Pejo
- Czech: Petr, Péťa
- Danish: Peter, Peder, Per, Peer, Pelle
- Dutch: Pieter, Peter, Piet, Pier
- Emiliano-Romagnolo: Pédor
- Esperanto: Petro
- Estonian: Peeter, Peep, Peetrus, Pavo, Peedo
- Faroese: Pætur, Petur, Per
- Filipino: Pedro, Pedring
- Frisian: Piter, Pier
- Finnish: Pietari, Pekka, Petri, Petteri
- French: Pierre
- Galician: Pedro
- Georgian: პეტრე
- German: Peter
- Greek: Πέτρος
- Guarani: Peru
- Gujarati: પીટર
- Gungbe: Pita
- Haitian Creole: Pierre
- Hausa: Bitrus
- Hindi: Pathrus, पीटर
- Hebrew: פטרוס, פטר
- Hungarian: Péter; Petya, Peti
- Icelandic: Pétur, Pési
- Indonesian: Petrus, Peter
- Irish: Piaras, Peadar
- Italian: Pietro, Pier, Piero
- Japanese:
- * Protestant: ピーター
- * Catholic: ペトロ, ペテロ
- * Biblical contexts: ペトロス
- Kazakh: Петр
- Khmer: Pathra
- Konkani: Pedru
- Korean: 베드로 ; less commonly, 페트루스 ; 피터
- Lao: ເປໂຕ
- Latin: Petrus
- Latvian: Pēteris
- Lingala: Petelo
- Lithuanian: Petras
- Lombard: Peder
- Low German: Petrus
- Luganda: Petero
- Luxembourgish: Pit, Pier
- Macedonian: Петар, Питер, Петре, Перо, Пере, Перица
- Malagasy: Petera
- Malayalam: പത്രോസ്, പീരി
- Maltese: Pietru
- Manx: Peddyr
- Māori: Petera, Pita
- Marathi: पेत्र, पेद्रो
- Mongolian: Петр
- Montenegrin: Петар, Перо
- Nepali: पत्रुस
- Norman: Pierre
- Northern Sami: Pekka, Piera, Biera, Bierril, Bierža, Biehtár
- Norwegian: Peter, Petter, Per, Pelle, Peder
- Nahuatl: Pedro
- Occitan: Pèire, Pèir, Pèr
- Persian: Pedros, Pedrush
- Polish: Piotr. Diminutives/hypocoristics include Piotrek, Piotruś, and Piotrunio. Piotr has several name days in Poland.
- Portuguese: Pedro, Pêro
- Punjabi: ਪਤਰਸਨੂੰ
- Quechua: Pidru, Rumi
- Romanian: Petru, Petre, Petrică, Petrișor
- Russian: Пётр, Питер, Петя , Петруха
- Samoan: Petelo
- Sardinian: Pedru, Perdu, Pretu
- Scottish Gaelic: Peadair
- Serbian: Петар, Петер, Перо, Пера, Перица, Периша
- Sicilian: Pietru
- Silesian: Pyjter, Piter
- Sinhala: Peduru
- Slovak: Peter, Peťo
- Slovene: Peter
- Spanish: Pedro
- Swahili: Petero
- Swedish: Peter, Petter, Peder, Per, Pehr, Pär, Pelle, Pälle
- Syriac: ܦܛܪܘܣ
- Tagalog: Pedro
- Tamil: Pethuru, Raayappar
- Telugu: పేతురు
- , เปโตร
- Tongan: Pita
- Tswana: Petere, Pitoro
- Turkish: Kaya, Kayahan ; Petrus, Petros
- Ukrainian: Петро, Пітер, Петрик , Петрусь
- Urdu: پتھر or پیٹر
- Uzbek: Pyotr
- Venetian: Piero
- Vietnamese: Phê-rô
- Võro: Piitre
- Welsh: Pedr
- Frisian language|West Frisian]: Petrus
- Yoruba: Peteru
- Zulu: Petru