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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, Pelle, Peadair, Petrus, Perrin, Perkin, Perkins, Parnell, Parle, Parkin, Parkinson, Petrie, Petri, Petronio, Pierson, Péter, Petò, Petúr, Pyotr, Peter

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from Peter.
  2. Americanized form of similar surnames of non-English origin (such as Petersen, or Swedish Pettersson).
  3. In VT, there are Petersons who were originally called by the French name Beausoleil; in some documentation this was translated fairly literally as Prettysun, which was then assimilated to Peterson.