Pit - Meaning of Pit

What does Pit mean?

[ 1 syll. pit, pi-t ] The baby boy name Pit is pronounced PIHT †. Pit's origin is Old Greek, and its use, German. Pit is a short form of the Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Scandinavian Peter.

A form of Pit is the German variant spelling Pitt.

See also the related categories, greek and german.

Pit is infrequently used as a baby name for boys. It is not ranked within the top 1000 names. Within the group of boy names directly linked to Pit, Peter was the most popular in 2018.

Baby names that sound like Pit include Pitt (German), Pat (English), Pate (English), Patt, Peat, Peate, Peet (Estonian), Peyt, Pott, Paddie (English), Paddy (English and Irish), Pati, Patti, Pattie, Patty, Paty, Pavit, Pavitt, Pavyt, and Payat (English).

† English pronunciation for Pit: P as in "pea (P.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; T as in "tee (T.IY)"



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