Per

From Latin Petrus.

Per

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Peter

g=propernoun

From Latin Petrus. First recorded in Denmark ca. 1350.

• IPA^(key): /per/, [pʰeɐ̯]

Per

1. a male given name from Latin

• Peter

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 41 939 males with the given name Per have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on May 9th, 2011.

Per m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• son of Per: Persson
• daughter of Per: Persdóttir

• Peer

From Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Per in the 19th century.

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• Rhymes: -eːɐ̯

Per m (proper noun, strong, genitive Pers, plural Pere or (colloquial) Pers)

1. a male given name

• Peer (less common)

From Latin Petrus. First recorded in Norway ca. 1440.

Per

1. a male given name from Latin

• Traditionally popular in Norway. Also a common first part of conjoined names such as Per-Olav or Per-Erik.

• Peder
• Peer
• Peter
• Petter

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 40 795 males with the given name Per living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

• Peer (alternative spelling)
• Pe (dialectal, Sunnmøre)

From Middle Norwegian Péðr, from Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus (“Peter”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /peːr/

Per m

1. a male given name from Latin

Patronymics:

• son of Per: Persson
• daughter of Per: Persdotter

• persok (“Feast of Saint Peter”)

• Peter
• Petter
• Peder
• Pede

• “Peter” in Ivar Aasen (1878) Norsk Navnebog, eller Samling af Mandsnavne og Kvindenavne‎^[3] (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN, page 90
• Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
• [4] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 37 623 males with the given name Per living in Norway on January 1st 2022, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on October 31th, 2022.

• Pär

From Latin Petrus. First recorded in Sweden in 1428.

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• Rhymes: -æːr

Per c (genitive Pers)

1. a male given name

• Traditionally popular in Sweden. Also a common first part of conjoined names such as Per-Olof or Per-Åke.

• Peter
• Petter
• Persson

• Percy
• Pernilla

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [5] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 168 066 males with the given Per name living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on May 9th, 2011.

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