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Pietari (male)

Variants:Pekka (M) Peter (M)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

Finnish form of Peter [q.v.], from Greek "a rock" or "a stone".

The vernacular form is Pekka.

 
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