Pete is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Pete is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Pete. In the SmartGenius ranking, Pete is #2,088 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 36,372 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Pete. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Pete annualy. This means that there have been boys named Pete who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Pete have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Pete even more than any other time: in 1908, it holds its present record at rank #167 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Pete was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Pete has never been ranked higher than #167. In 2022, he rivaled the 2,226 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 54 boys named Pete were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Pete were born, there have been 128 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Pete is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Pete and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Pete, you can simply say:
Pig
Elephant
Tiger
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Pete
Pete
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
E
T
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
E
T
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Pete sounds like this:
