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Peder

Boys' name

Stone, rock, through Peter

Peder has been given to 799 babies in the U.S. since 1894. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Peder, 2017

1 in 715,000

Peder over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Peder: meaning, origin, and history

Stone, rock, through Peter

Danish

What Peder means

Peder belongs to the name family reached through Peder → Peter. Its meaning is “stone, rock”.

Origin, language, and formation

Peder is used in English, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Its origins include Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Peter.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 799 boys were recorded with the name Peder between 1894 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,200 in 1894.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Peder?

Peder had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 370,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Peder sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Peder. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Peders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Peder was born before 1968 — so the typical Peder is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
596
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (134).

Is Peder rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (20)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
59.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,200
1894

Spellings of Peder

Peder is not the most common spelling — Peter is, with 69.0% against Peder's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Peder is used

Across 1910–2025, Peder was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 142,063 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2Washington1 in —
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Peder has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Peder around the world

Where Peder ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #100
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1957–1960
    #468
    in 1960

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Peder by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,200
1894
Peak year
1975
20 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
799
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Peder

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Peder

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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