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Pieter

#13,404 in 2025Boys' name

Rock, stone

Pieter has been given to 1,011 babies in the U.S. since 1935. In 2025 it ranked #13,404 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1967, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Pieter, 2025

1 in 663,000

Pieter over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pieter: meaning, origin, and history

Rock, stone

Ancient Greek

What Pieter means

Pieter means “rock, stone”, associated with pétros.

Origin, language, and formation

Pieter is used in Afrikaans and Dutch. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Pieter comes through Dutch Pieter, Latin Petrus, Ancient Greek Πέτρος and Aramaic כֵּיפָא.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Peter.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Afrikaans, Pieter is pronounced /ˈpitər/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,011 boys were recorded with the name Pieter between 1935 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1967; its best national rank was #1,596 in 1967.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,334 in 2020 to #13,404 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,349 in 2015 to #13,404 in 2025.

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 Pieter?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,404
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pieter 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pieter. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pieters were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pieter was born before 1980 — so the typical Pieter is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
15.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
908
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 15.7% of all recorded uses (159).

Is Pieter 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
−3,755
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,070
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,055
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.8%
Peak was 1967 (24)
Years since peak
58
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,596
1967

Spellings of Pieter

Pieter is not the most common spelling — Peter is, with 88.6% against Pieter's 0.15%.

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 Pieter is used

Across 1910–2025, Pieter was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 389,323 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Pieter has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pieter around the world

Where Pieter 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2017
    #3,996
    in 2017
  • Scotland
    2017–2017
    #733
    in 2017
  • France
    1965–2023
    #6,942
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–2015
    #2,735
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1945–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pieter by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,404
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,070
Best rank ever
#1,596
1967
Peak year
1967
24 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,011
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Pieter

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

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Sibling names for Pieter

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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