First name origins & meanings:
- Latin: Rock, stone
- French: Rock
First name variations: Pete, Petey, Pietor, Pytor, Petr, Pieter, Piotr, Pietro, Pedro, Piers, Pierce, Peer, Pero, Piero, Peder, Per, Pelle, Peadair, Petrus, Peterson, Perrin, Perkin, Perkins, Parnell, Parle, Parkin, Parkinson, Petrie, Petri, Petronio, Pierson, Péter, Petò, Petúr, Pyotr, Peter
Last name origins & meanings:
- French: from the French personal name Pierre (see
Peter).
- French: from Old French pierre ‘stone’, ‘rock’
(Latin petra), a topographic name for someone who lived on a
patch of stony soil or by a large outcrop of rock, or a metonymic
occupational name for a quarryman or stonemason.