# Pete (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/pete/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /piːt/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 43,700 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 43,530 / 170 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 41, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 8 | 3,395 |
| 1940 | 8 | 3,441 |
| 1944 | 6 | 4,446 |
| 1946 | 5 | 5,529 |
| 1954 | 5 | 6,403 |
| 1955 | 5 | 6,492 |
| 1962 | 5 | 7,313 |
| 1964 | 5 | 7,525 |
| 1966 | 6 | 6,369 |
| 1967 | 5 | 7,560 |
| 1971 | 7 | 7,150 |
| 1972 | 5 | 9,214 |
| 1973 | 5 | 9,379 |
| 1977 | 9 | 6,717 |
| 1978 | 5 | 10,946 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 66 | 2,048 |
| 2012 | 64 | 2,123 |
| 2013 | 63 | 2,133 |
| 2014 | 70 | 2,038 |
| 2015 | 62 | 2,202 |
| 2016 | 49 | 2,581 |
| 2017 | 56 | 2,334 |
| 2018 | 60 | 2,277 |
| 2019 | 44 | 2,840 |
| 2020 | 51 | 2,536 |
| 2021 | 58 | 2,367 |
| 2022 | 55 | 2,508 |
| 2023 | 54 | 2,503 |
| 2024 | 40 | 3,084 |
| 2025 | 58 | 2,382 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 2,357 |
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 2003 | 4 | 2,857 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2006 | 4 | 3,385 |
| 2007 | 5 | 3,095 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,227 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |

## People named Pete

- Pete Sampras, American tennis player
- Pete Buttigieg, American politician (born 1982)
- Pete Conrad, American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1999)
- Pete Postlethwaite, English character actor (1946–2011)
- Pete Docter, American animator and film director
- Pete Maravich, American basketball player (born 1947)
- Pete Doherty, English musician, actor and poet (born 1979)
- Pete Parkkonen, Finnish singer (born 1990)
- Pete Rose, American baseball player (1941–2024)
- Pete Parada, American drummer
- Pete Yorn, American musician
- Pete Souza, American photographer (born 1954)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.