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First name origin & meaning:

Latin: Rock, stone

First name variations: Pete, Petey, Pietor, Pytor, Petr, Pieter, Piotr, Pietro, Pedro, Pierre, Piers, Pierce, Peer, Pero, Piero, Peder, Per, Peadair, Petrus, Peterson, Perrin, Perkin, Perkins, Parnell, Parle, Parkin, Parkinson, Petrie, Petri, Petronio, Pierson, Péter, Petò, Petúr, Pyotr, Peter

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Italian: from pelle ‘skin’, probably used as a nickname for someone with a peculiarity of the skin.
  2. French (Pellé): nickname for a bald man, from Old French pelé, Latin depilatus ‘stripped (of hair)’.
  3. Danish and North German: from the personal name Pelle, a vernacular form of Peter.
  4. German: from Middle Low German pelle ‘precious purple silk cloth’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such cloth or for a maker of official and church vestments.