Pieter
Pieter was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,404 among boys’ names; 1,011 Americans have been recorded with it since 1935 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pieter by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pieter mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Pieter is “a male given name, equivalent to English Peter” Its etymology gives the senses “rock, stone” (πέτρος) and “stone, rock; Peter, Cephas” (כֵּיפָא).
From Middle Dutch Pieter, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”), as a name a loan translation of Aramaic כֵּיפָא (“stone, rock; Peter, Cephas”).
/ˈpi.tər/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pieter?
#13,404 among boys’ names, 2025
Pieter fell from #9,349 in 2015 to #13,404 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 2.9 per million.
24 babies in 1967, the peak
Pieter peaked in 1967, when 24 boys were given it, #1,596 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,404 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,649 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,583 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,334 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,778 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,349 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,531 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,438 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,411 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,921 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #9,448 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,096 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 10 | #8,016 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 14 | #6,013 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,973 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,050 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,605 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,976 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,070 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,496 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,957 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,963 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,549 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,333 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,031 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,725 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,096 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,418 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,681 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,842 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,569 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,043 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,801 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,855 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,258 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,789 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,034 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,794 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,859 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,383 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,308 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,639 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,536 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,420 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,865 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,270 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,822 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,139 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,774 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,269 | 9.1 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,110 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 20 | #1,818 | 11.5 |
| 1967 | 24 | #1,596 | 13.8 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,868 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,056 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,177 | 7.5 |
| 1963 | 17 | #2,025 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,803 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,661 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,577 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,271 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,826 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,254 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,461 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,256 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,691 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,216 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,641 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 8 | #3,010 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,595 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,227 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,244 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,293 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,850 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,929 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,431 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,155 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,889 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,885 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,062 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,397 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,808 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,941 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,031 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pieter a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pieter has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pieter: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pieter, and how old are they?
An estimated 853 Americans named Pieter and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 28 and 58. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,697 people named Pieter (5 women and girls, 1,692 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 871 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,745 babies since 1880, Pieter is the most given (58% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pieter
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pieter and names like it
- Compare Pieter and PiotrBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sPieter peaked in 1967.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pieter since 1910.
- Dutch namesWiktionary’s origin for Pieter: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1967The year the most babies were named Pieter.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Pieter alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.