''Pelle'' is a Swedish diminutive of the name
Per, a variation of the name
Peter
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a su ...
. It was the No. 351-ranked name in popularity in the
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
in 2015.
Direct translations
*Italian: ''pelle'' – skin
*French: ''Pellé'' – nickname for a bald old man
*Middle Low German: ''Pelle'' – precious purple silk cloth
*Finnish: ''pelle'' – clown
Meaning of the name
Pelle is a Scandinavian pet form of the name 'Per'. Forms of this name deriving from other languages include '
Petter' and 'Peter'.
Peter is a common masculine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
. It is derived, via Latin ''petra'', from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning 'stone' or 'rock'.
People
*
Pelle Larsson (born 2001), Swedish basketball player
*
Pelle Strindlund (born 1971), Swedish writer and animal rights advocate
*
Howlin Pelle Almqvist (born 1978), Swedish singer, frontman of
The Hives
The Hives are a Swedish garage rock band formed in Fagersta in 1993. After gaining success in Sweden throughout the 1990s, they rose to worldwide prominence in the early 2000s during the garage rock revival. The band's line-upconsisting of H ...
See also
*
Pele (name) Pele is a masculine given name, surname and nickname.
Variant forms include Pelé and Pellè.
People with this nickname or professional name
;Male
*Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento; 1940–2022), Brazilian footballer
*Pelé (footballer, born 19 ...
, given name and surname
References
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Masculine given names
Swedish masculine given names