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•Afrikaans: Pieter, Petrus
•Albanian: Petro, Petra, Pjetër, Pjetri
•Amharic: ???? ("?e?ros")
•Arabic: ???? (Boutros), ???? ("Pierre", mainly in Lebanon), ???? ("Peter", exact transcription)
•Aragonese: Pietro, Pero, Piero, Pier.
•Azerbaijani: Pyotr
•Armenian: ?????? (Bedros in Western dialect, Petros in Eastern dialect)
•Asturian: Pedru
•Basque: Peru, Pello (diminutive), Pedro, Piarres, Petri (Biblical), Kepa (neologism)
•Belarusian: ???? (Piotr), ????? (Piatro), ??????? (Piatrus)
•Breton: Pêr
•Bulgarian: ????? (Pet?r), ????, ???? (Pere, Pero), ?????, ???? (Petyo, Petyu), ?????, ????, ????? (Penyo, Penyu, Penko), ?????, ????, ????? (Pelyo, Pelyu, Pelko), ???? (Pesho); ????? (Kamen) ("kamen, kam?k" in Bulgarian means: stone)
•Catalan: Pere
•Cebuano: Pedro
•Standard Chinese: ?Protestant: ?? (Bidé)
?Catholic: ??? (Bóduolù)
•Coptic: ?????? (?e?ros)
•Cornish: Peder
•Croatian: Petar, Pero, Periša, Pera, Pejo, Nino
•Czech: Petr, Péta
•Danish: Peter, Peder, Per, Peer, Pelle
•Dutch: Pieter, Peter, Piet, Pier (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly. The Biblical Peter is translated as "Petrus".)
•Emiliano-Romagnolo: Pèdar
•Esperanto: Petro
•Estonian: Peeter, Peep, Peetrus, Pavo, Peedo
•Faroese: Pætur, Petur, Per
•Filipino: Pedro, Pedring (diminutive)
•Frisian: Piter, Pier
•Finnish: Pietari, Pekka, Petri, Petteri
•French: Pierre (Note: the word for stone in French is also "pierre")
•Galician: Pedro
•Georgian: ????? (Petre)
•German: Peter (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly. The Biblical Peter is translated as "Petrus".)
•Greek: ??t??? (Petros)
•Guarani Peru
•Gujarati: ???? (Pi?ar)
•Haitian Creole: Pyè. The name is spelled "Pierre" and pronounced "pyè"; also meaning "stone".
•Hausa: Bitrus
•Hindi: Pathrus, ???? (Pi?ar)
•Hebrew: ????? (Petros), ??? (literally Peter)
•Hungarian: Péter; Petya, Peti (diminutive)
•Icelandic: Pétur, Pési (diminutive)
•Indonesian: Petrus
•Irish: Piaras, Peadar
•Italian: Pietro, Pier, Piero (Note: the word for stone in Italian is "pietra")
•Khmer: Pathra
•Korean: ??? (Bedro; or, less commonly, ????; Petrus), ?? (Pit?)
•Japanese: ?Protestant: ???? (Pita)
?Catholic: ??? (Petoro), ??? (Petero),
?Biblical contexts: ???? (Petorosu)
•Konkani: Pedru
•Lao: ???? (Peot)
•Latin: Petrus
•Latvian: Peteris
•Lingala: Petelo
•Lithuanian: Petras
•Lombard: Peder
•Low German: Petrus
•Luganda: Petero
•Luxembourgish: Pit, Pier
•Macedonian: ????? (Petar), ????? (Piter), ????? (Petre), ???? (Pero), ???? (Pere), ?????? (Perica)
•Malayalam: ??????? (Patros), ????("Peeri", from Pierre)
•Maltese: Pietru
•Manx: Peddyr