Peter

Peter is a common name. As a given name, it generally is derived from Peter the Apostle, born Simon, who received the name "Peter" after he declared that Jesus indeed was the Messiah. The name "Peter" roughly means "rock" in Greek.

Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived, via Latin "petra", from the Greek word πέτρος (petros) meaning "stone" or "rock".
According to the New Testament, Jesus gave Saint Peter (whose given name was Simon) the name Kephas or Cephas meaning "stone" in Aramaic. Saint Peter, according to ancient tradition, became the first bishop of Rome. Roman Catholics consider him to have been the first Pope and all subsequent popes to have been his successors, and therefore sometimes refer to the Pope or the Papacy itself as Peter.

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"cease, stop," 1812, of uncertain origin. To peter out "become exhausted," is 1846 as miners' slang. Related: Petered; petering.

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Derived from the Greek word for rock (petros).

Pierre, Boutros, Petar, Piotr, Pierluigi, Peta, Piotrek, Per, Petrovich, Petr, Petra, Pelle, Peadar, Pieter, Peder, Pietro, Pjotr, Pedro, Petrika, Petter, Petras, Petrovna, Pyotr, Piers

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Peter Dinklage	1969	American actor
2	Peter Townsend	1914	British flying ace
3	Peter Thiel	1967	German-born American-New Zealand entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager
4	Peter Sarsgaard	1971	American actor
5	Peter Pan		Character created by J. M. Barrie
6	Peter		Apostle and first pope
7	Peter Capaldi	1958	Scottish actor, film director, and screenwriter
8	Peter Sellers	1925	British film actor, comedian and singer
9	Peter O'Toole	1932	Irish film and stage actor
10	Peter Stormare	1953	Swedish actor
11	Peter Falk	1927	American actor
12	Peter Gabriel	1950	English singer, musician, songwriter and activist
13	Peter Mayhew	1944	British actor
14	Peter Krause	1965	American actor
15	Peter Cushing	1913	English actor
16	Peter Facinelli	1973	American actor
17	Peter Crouch	1981	English footballer
18	Peter Jackson	1961	New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter
19	Peter the Great	1672	Tsar and 1st Emperor, founder of the Russian Empire
20	Peter Fonda	1940	American actor
21	Peter Boyle	1935	American actor
22	Peter Schmeichel	1963	Danish footballer
23	Peter Hermann	1967	American actor
24	Peter Frampton	1950	Musician from England
25	Peter Berg	1964	American actor, film director, producer and writer
26	Peter Sutcliffe	1946	Serial killer
27	Peter Cetera	1944	American musician
28	Peter Kay	1973	English writer, producer, actor and comedian
29	Peter Serafinowicz	1972	British actor
30	Peter Andre	1973	Singer from Australia
31	Peter Cullen	1941	Canadian actor
32	Peter Allen	1944	Australian songwriter
33	Peter Lawford	1923	English-American actor
34	Peter Phillips	1977	Son of Anne, Princess Royal (*1977)
35	Peter Weller	1947	American actor
36	Peter Scully	1964	Australian criminal
37	Peter Gallagher	1955	American actor
38	Peter Maivia	1937	Professional wrestler
39	Peter Sallis	1921	British actor and voice actor
40	Peter Lorre	1904	Austrian actor
41	Peter Ostrum	1957	American actor
42	Peter Jones	1966	British entrepreneur and businessman
43	Peter Paul Rubens	1577	Flemish Baroque painter
44	Peter Davison	1951	English actor
45	Peter Sagan	1990	Slovak road bicycle racer
46	Peter Ustinov	1921	English actor, writer, and dramatist
47	Peter Vaughan	1923	English actor
48	Peter Billingsley	1971	American actor and director
49	Peter North	1957	Canadian-born American pornographic actor, director, dancer and producer
50	Peter Graves	1926	1926-2010 American actor
51	Peter Green	1946	British blues rock guitarist
52	Peter Drucker	1909	American business consultant
53	Peter Jennings	1938	News anchor
54	Peter Manuel	1927	Serial killer
55	Peter Lim	1953	Singapore businessman
56	Peter Bogdanovich	1939	Film director
57	Peter MacNicol	1954	Actor
58	Peter Singer	1946	Australian philosopher
59	Peter Criss	1945	American musician
60	Peter Cook	1937	British actor
61	Peter III of Russia	1728	Emperor of Russia
62	Peter Steele	1962	American musician
63	Peter Tosh	1944	Jamaican reggae musician
64	Peter Coyote	1941	American actor and director
65	Peter Brock	1945	Australian racecar driver
66	Peter Popoff	1946	German-American televangelist
67	Peter Hitchens	1951	Author, journalist
68	Peter Firth	1953	English actor
69	Peter Griffin		Fictional character from the Family Guy franchise
70	Peter Finch	1916	British-born Australian actor
71	Peter Hook	1956	English musician and author
72	Peter Tork	1942	American musician and actor
73	Peter Scanavino	1980	American actor
74	Peter Mullan	1959	Scottish actor, filmmaker and socialist
75	Peter Odemwingie	1981	Nigerian footballer
76	Peter Shilton	1949	English footballer
77	Peter Clemenza		Fictional human
78	Peter DeLuise	1966	American-Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
79	Peter Wolf	1946	American rock singer
80	Peter Michael Escovedo	1961	Emmy-award nominated percussionist and musical director
81	Peter Douglas	1955	Television and film producer
82	Peter Sarstedt	1941	British singer
83	Peter Griffith	1933	American advertising executive and former child stage actor
84	Peter Molyneux	1959	English video game designer and game programmer
85	Peter Mensah	1959	English-Ghanaian actor
86	Peter Strauss	1947	American actor
87	Peter Norman	1942	Australian sprinter
88	Peter Mansbridge	1948	British-Canadian broadcaster
89	Peter Weir	1944	Australian film director
90	Peter Marc Jacobson	1957	American actor and director
91	Peter Guber	1942	Film producer, executive
92	Peter Scolari	1955	American actor
93	Peter Petrelli	1979	Fictional character on the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes
94	Peter Mukerjea	1954
95	Peter Forsberg	1973	Swedish ice hockey player
96	Peter Jacobson	1965	American film and television actor, born 1965
97	Peter Kürten	1883	German serial killer
98	Peter Tobin	1948	Scottish serial killer
99	Peter Schiff	1963	American entrepreneur, economist and author
100	Peter Buffett	1958	American musician and writer
101	Peter Horton	1953	American actor
102	Peter Kropotkin	1842	Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer
103	Peter Shaw	1918	British film actor and producer
104	Peter Mandelson	1953	British Labour politician
105	Peter Noone	1947	English singer-songwriter and actor
106	Peter Higgs	1929	British physicist
107	Peter Wright	1970	Scottish darts player
108	Peter Hein		Action man
109	Peter Yarrow	1938	Singer from the United States
110	Peter Breck	1929	American actor
111	Peter Greene	1965	Actor
112	Peter Beardsley	1961	English footballer
113	Peter Murphy	1957	English rock vocalist
114	Peter Dante	1968	American actor
115	Peter Riegert	1947	American actor and director
116	Peter Cosgrove	1947	Australian general; Governor-General of Australia
117	Peter Thomas	1924	Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
118	Peter King	1944	American politician
119	Peter Abelard	1079	French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician
120	Peter Quillin	1983	American boxer
121	Peter Benchley	1940	American author and screenwriter
122	Peter Furler	1966	Australian musician and singer
123	Peter McRobbie	1943	British actor
124	Peter Garrett	1953	Australian politician and Midnight Oil lead singer
125	Peter Falconio	1973	British murder victim
126	Peter Rosenberg	1979	Radio DJ
127	Peter Chernin	1951	American businessman
128	Peter Stuyvesant	1612	Dutch politician
129	Peter Freuchen	1886	Danish writer, explorer and anthropologist
130	Peter Laviolette	1964	American ice hockey player
131	Peter Bosz	1963	Dutch former footballer, coach
132	Peter Lynch	1944	American businessman
133	Peter Wyngarde	1933	English actor
134	Peter II of Russia	1715	Emperor of Russia
135	Peter Bergman	1953	American actor
136	Peter Bowles	1936	British actor
137	Peter Brown	1935	Television actor from the United States
138	Samuel Peter	1980	Nigerian boxer
139	Peter Llewelyn Davies	1897	British publisher
140	Peter Hollens	1982	Peter Hollens
141	Peter Reckell	1955	American actor
142	Peter Gadiot	1986	British actor
143	Peter II of Yugoslavia	1923	King of Yugoslavia
144	Peter F. Hamilton	1960	English novelist
145	Peter Cambor	1978	American actor
146	Peter O'Brien	1960	Australian actor
147	Peter Morgan	1963	British film writer and playwright
148	Peter Navarro	1949	American economist
149	Peter Aerts	1970	Kickboxer
150	Peter Gotti	1939	American mobster
151	Peter Max	1937	American artist
152	Peter Hinwood	1946	English film actor
153	Peter Sohn	1977	American animator
154	Peter Blake	1932	British artist
155	Peter Greenaway	1942	British film director
156	Peter Blunt	1923	British Army general
157	Peter Butterworth	1919	English actor
158	Peter Tomarken	1942	Television personality
159	Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington	1919	British Conservative politician
160	Peter Craig	1969	American novelist, screenwriter
161	Peter Doocy	1987	American journalist
162	Peter Sunde	1978	Swedish activist and computer expert
163	Peter Grant	1935	British music manager
164	Peter Barlow
165	Peter Diamandis	1961	American businessman
166	Peter George Peterson	1926	American businessman
167	Peter Alliss	1931	Professional golfer, broadcaster, golf course architect
168	Peter Pevensie		Fictional English boy, a lead character in the first two Narnia books
169	Peter H. Gilmore	1956	American author and administrator of the Church of Satan
170	Peter Orlovsky	1933	American poet
171	Peter Fitz	1931	German actor and voice actor
172	Peter Lupus	1932	Actor/bodybuilder
173	Peter Snow	1938	British television presenter
174	Peter Venkman		Character from Ghostbusters
175	Peter Stringfellow	0666	Nightclubs owner
176	Peter Sagal	1965	NPR personality, host of "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"
177	Peter Asher	1944	Record producer
178	Peter Franzén	1971	Finnish actor
179	Peter Marshall	1926	Game show host, performer, singer
180	Peter Burroughs	1947	British actor
181	Peter Egan	1946	British actor
182	Peter Joseph	1978	Filmmaker and social activist
183	Peter R. Orszag	1968	American economist
184	Peter Carl Fabergé	1846	Russian jeweller
185	Peter Taylor	1928	English football goalkeeper and manager
186	Peter Brook	1925	English theatre and film director and innovator
187	Peter Rodger	1965	British filmmaker
188	Peter Reid	1956	English footballer and manager
189	Peter M. Brant	1947	American businessman
190	Peter Outerbridge	1966	Canadian actor
191	Peter Hall	1930	English theatre and film director
192	Peter Grosz	1974	American actor
193	Peter Ebdon	1970	British snooker player
194	Peter Shaffer	1926	English playwright and screenwriter
195	Peter Prevc	1992	Slovenian ski jumper
196	Peter V. Brett	1973	American writer
197	Peter Holt	1948	Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
198	Peter Beale
199	Peter MacKay	1965	Canadian politician
200	Peter Dutton	1970	Australian politician