Where does the name Peter come from?
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Peter comes from the Greek name Petros, which means a stone or a rock. http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/words/4/1124745914-8791.html .
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Peter English, Scottish, German, Dutch, etc.: from the personal name Peter (Greek Petros, from petra ‘rock’, ‘stone’). The name was popular throughout Christian Europe in the Middle Ages, having been bestowed by Christ as a byname on the apostle Simon bar Jonah, the brother of Andrew. The name was chosen by Christ for its symbolic significance (John 1:42, Matt. 16:18); St. Peter is regarded as the founding head of the Christian Church in view of Christ’s saying, ‘Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church’. In Christian Germany in the early Middle Ages this was the most frequent personal name of non-Germanic origin until the 14th century. This surname has also absorbed many cognates in other languages, for example Czech Petr, Hungarian Péter. It has also been adopted as a surname by Ashkenazic Jews. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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ts derived from the greek word for rock or stone - perta but also peter means slow hence the word pertering.
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