Petteri

Variant of Pietari (“Peter”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpetːeri/,
• Rhymes: -etːeri
• Syllabification^(key): Pet‧te‧ri

Petteri

1. a male given name

• A popular middle name during the second half of the 20th century.

• Petteri is the 218^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 2,558 male individuals (and as a middle name to 70,910 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Ultimately from Latin Petrus. The place name is a calque from Russian Питер (Piter). Akin to Finnish Pietari, Petteri.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpetːeri/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpetːeri/,
• Rhymes: -etːerʲ, -etːeri
• Hyphenation: Pet‧te‧ri

Petteri

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
2. Saint Petersburg (a major city in Russia)
   • 1937, N. A. Iljin, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (kolmas osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Torgua pitivät: Petterii halkoja veittivät tali liivaa.

     They kept goods: They carried billets or sand into Saint Petersburg.

• (name): Pedro
• (city): Leningrad (historical)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 404
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 74

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Ingrian Petteri.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈpetːeri/,
• Rhymes: -etːeri
• Hyphenation: Pet‧te‧ri

Petteri

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
2. (uncountable) Saint Petersburg (a major city in Russia)