Pete
Pete is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 40 births. Its best rank was 173rd, in 1908.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 400.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1959768 births
- Best rank
- #173in 1908
- Since 1880
- 43,474people given the name
The story in the numbers
43,474 boys have been named Pete in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 768 births.
The name has all but left use: 40 births in 2024, against 768 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 116 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Pete | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 590 | |
| 1890s | 651 | |
| 1900s | 949 | |
| 1910s | 4,352 | |
| 1920s | 6,285 | |
| 1930s | 5,529 | |
| 1940s | 6,130 | |
| 1950s | 5,928 | |
| 1960s | 5,153 | |
| 1970s | 2,855 | |
| 1980s | 1,964 | |
| 1990s | 1,338 | |
| 2000s | 893 | |
| 2010s | 599 | |
| 2020s | 258 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Pete was the 285th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Pete
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carlpeak 1956
- Joepeak 1936
- Edmondpeak 1920
- Nedpeak 1939
- Edwardpeak 1924
- Boydpeak 1922
- Raypeak 1926
- Eldridgepeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.