Boy
Pete
Pete means "Greek petros, rock" and comes from Greek, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It has not kept pace since its 1920s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
EtymologyShort for Peter
GreekGreek "petros" – "rock"
Births by decade
1900s
949
1910s
4,368
1920s
6,333
1930s
5,553
1940s
6,147
1950s
5,935
1960s
5,180
1970s
2,885
1980s
1,962
1990s
1,336
2000s
891
2010s
494
Peaked in the 1920s · 42,033 total U.S. births since 1900