''Pelle'' is a Swedish diminutive of the name
Per
Per is a Latin preposition which means "through" or "for each", as in per capita.
Per or PER may also refer to:
Places
* IOC country code for Peru
* Pér, a village in Hungary
* Chapman code for Perthshire, historic county in Scotland
Math ...
, 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 sur ...
. It was the No. 351-ranked name in popularity in the
Netherlands
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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 fa ...
. It is derived, via Latin ''petra'', from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
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 ...
word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning 'stone' or 'rock'.
People
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Pelle Strindlund
Pelle Strindlund (born 8 October 1971) is a Swedish writer and animal rights advocate.
Born in Sundsvall, Strindlund has a degree in philosophy and Spanish, and an MA in religious studies. He is a founding member of the Rescue Service, an animal ...
(born 1971), Swedish writer and animal rights advocate
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Howlin Pelle Almqvist
Per "Pelle" Almqvist (born 29 May 1978), also known as Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He is the lead singer of garage rock band The Hives.
Biography
Almqvist was born to a doctor father and a teacher mother. Almq ...
(born 1978), Swedish singer, frontman of
The Hives
The Hives are a Swedish rock band that rose to prominence in the early 2000s during the garage rock revival. Their mainstream success came with the release of the album ''Veni Vidi Vicious'', containing the single "Hate to Say I Told You So". T ...
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 (1940–2022), Brazilian footballer
* Pelé (footballer, born 1973), Macanese football midf ...
, given name and surname
References
Masculine given names
Swedish masculine given names
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