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pete Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: variant of Peet 2, or from a pet form of Peter.
  2. Hungarian: from a short form of the personal name Péter (see Peter).
  3. Altered spelling of Peet 1.
  4. Navajo: unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The pete name in History

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Distribution of pete Families in the US in 1920
Number of pete families
 35-67
 12-34		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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