Petko

given name · Bulgarian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Petko is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is the 71st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria1 in 1.6K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 2.1M
  • XKKosovo1 in 2.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈781 ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
101 ●

11K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.5K ◐

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts●

PetkoLatin · Bulgarian●16K records
ПеткоCyrillic · Bulgarian●12K records

Locally spelled Петко in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina and Petkó in HU Hungary.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Petko is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#7126,7267.3K rec.——Petko99
MK North Macedonia#821390△2 rec.1 in 5.5K390Петко3
HR Croatia—296374 rec.—64Petko17
GB United Kingdom—287136 rec.——Petko47
RS Serbia#786237165 rec.——Petko15
RU Russia—181169 rec.——Петко19
XK Kosovo#54716161 rec.—135Petko1
US United States—1601K rec.1 in 2.1M552Petko101
ES Spain—131364 rec.1 in 382K153Petko35
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#8376216 rec.——Петко4
IT Italy—4848 rec.——Petko9
SI Slovenia—43△1 rec.1 in 49K44Petko2

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bulgarian16K78%
  • English9955%
  • Croatian7804%
  • Spanish5513%
  • German4092%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bulgarian16,20878%
English9955%
Croatian7804%
Spanish5513%
German4092%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Petko is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7.4K records spelled Petko8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Peťko, Petkó

  • Russian surname1.2K records spelled Petko13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Петько, Петко, Pet'Ko, Peťko

  • Polish given name694 records spelled Petko2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Peťko

  • Czech given name670 records spelled Petko4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Peťko

  • a separate given name352 records spelled Petko3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Petkó, Peťko

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0204060201020152020202557 · 2015

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Petko in SURS — resident population given names, Slovenia, 2008–2025
Yearrecords
200853
200950
201053
201155
201255
201354
201456
201557
201654
201755
201853
201950
202049
202149
202249
202348
202446
202543

SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Petko Slaveykov, b. 1827Petko Karavelov, b. 1843Petko Voyvoda, b. 1844Petko Todorov, b. 1879Petko Staynov, b. 1890Petko Staynov, b. 1896Petko Karlukovski, b. 1921Petko Sirakov, b. 1929Petko Petkov, b. 1968Petko Venelinov, b. 1988

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Petko
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020552#42,328
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010469#45,569
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000454#44,574
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020160#43,791
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—153#5,170
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—135#2,706
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—131#12,732
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202687—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—87#33,590
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202683—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—83#34,328
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202164#11,132

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 147 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Petko?
We estimate roughly 781 people bear Petko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Petko have the most bearers?
Petko is most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is most often spelled petko.
How common is Petko compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Petko is the 71st most common given name of 20,382 given names recorded there.
Is Petko a male or female name?
Petko is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Petko” — the 71st most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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