Pee Wee as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Pee Wee

What is the meaning of the name Pee Wee ?

The baby name Pee Wee is a Unisex name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈpiːwiː/ (PEE-wee).

Pee Wee is English in Origin.

Pee Wee is a colloquial American English name meaning "very small" or "little one." It descends from the slang word peewee, itself taken from the name of the pewee/peewee bird, whose call the term imitates; by the mid-19th century, peewee was generalized to mean tiny. Common variants and stylings include Peewee, Pee-wee, Pewee, and PeeWee; as a personal name it is typically spaced as Pee Wee.

Used chiefly as an informal nickname rather than a formal given name, Pee Wee surfaced widely in the United States during the early to mid-20th century for compact or youthful figures. Notable bearers include baseball great Pee Wee Reese, jazz clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, and country musician Pee Wee King; the 1980s character Pee-wee Herman further fixed it in pop culture. Though historically male-leaning, it functions as a playful, unisex pet name today.

⚙ Pee Wee is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Pee Wee appears only 12 times in total — found in 7 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.