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Pete name image The name Pete is a diminutive form of Peter.  The table below indicates the number of times the name Pete has been given to baby boys in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Pete
Use of the Name Pete for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
41,19014,1102,820126000
The table below indicates the number of times the name Pete has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.  Pete last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1996, the last year shown on the table.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Pete
 Used as a Boy NameUsed as a Girl Name
YearRankCountRankCount
188023550  
188120257  
188221160  
188325143  
188417581  
188521656  
188623154  
188723847  
188818482  
188921560  
189021460  
189122153  
189220374  
189321464  
189420668  
189521366  
189622763  
189719576  
189824253  
189918774  
1900185116  
190118679  
190220775  
190321769  
190422171  
190520486  
190622080  
1907178122  
1908173131  
1909189119  
1910181156  
1911207143  
1912211263  
1913198341  
1914194432  
1915202532  
1916196581  
1917189638  
1918202640  
1919201630  
1920205638  
1921206664  
1922203642  
1923208621  
1924214631  
1925214646  
1926215641  
1927226596  
1928214618  
1929220580  
1930221582  
1931212590  
1932226530  
1933228507  
1934205601  
1935204591  
1936211558  
1937232510  
1938234512  
1939220550  
1940239509  
1941240533  
1942240559  
1943227637  
1944213648  
1945232579  
1946229681  
1947238734  
1948252651  
1949285574  
1950283558  
1951298534  
1952316505  
1953313526  
1954326499  
1955311545  
1956309577  
1957294650  
1958279753  
1959285769  
1960287754  
1961292698  
1962311632  
1963321605  
1964334547  
1965362449  
1966387388  
1967387380  
1968407358  
1969426342  
1970423372  
1971427358  
1972450313  
1973471278  
1974489267  
1975498257  
1976496259  
1977504262  
1978582209  
1979513268  
1980580218  
1981553235  
1982596208  
1983597204  
1984612193  
1985648182  
1986654186  
1987696172  
1988700178  
1989738180  
1990782169  
1991800166  
1992952127  
1993882146  
1994968130  
1995    
1996994126  
Totals:  41,190 0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Pete as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Pete appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 116 times during the last 125 years.

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