Peder

Where Peder comes from

The dictionaries list Peder as a given name — a male given name from Danish, equivalent to English Peter — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Danish
Along the way
  1. 1894
    Debut at its peak, #1,074
    #1,074 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1895
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Danish, equivalent to English Peter.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Peder hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.