Comments for the name Per

Per (or Pär) is pronounced as "pair". The common Swedish nickname is Pelle (Pell-eh).

Per Gessle solo artist and member of popgroup Roxette is a famous bearer.

In Sweden Per is also common in combination with other first name, like Per-Erik, Per-Arne etc.

The Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. His most famous novels are "The Dwarf" (Dvärgen) and "Barabbas".

Per is also a Flemish/Middle English name for "Peter". With the ending 'kin' - meaning "little" it was the name of a famous pretender to the English throne during the reign of Henry VII. He pretended to be Richard of Shrewsbury one of the Princes in the Tower.

One of my favourite Swedish youth authors is Per Nilsson!

Per Anger, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in the 1940s, who originated the idea of issuing provisional passports to Hungarian Jews to protect them from arrest and deportation. Anger collaborated with Raoul Wallenberg to save the lives of thousands of Jews.

Per is the name of a character in Susan Price's The Sterkarm Handshake.

This could be a nice middle name.