Petr

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Piotr in PL Poland, US United States, BR Brazil and 6 more, Петр in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 3 more, Petar in BG Bulgaria, HR Croatia, RS Serbia and 2 more and Peter in SK Slovakia, SI Slovenia, CH Switzerland and 1 more.

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●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Petr is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name37K records spelled Petr10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Russia, Czechia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Pëtr, Pětr, Petř, Pet''R

• a separate given name6.0K records spelled Petr3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine

  Also written Pëtr, Pětr

• Finnish given name3.4K records spelled Petr6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Russia, Slovenia

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

  Also written Pëtr, Pétr

• French given name3.0K records spelled Petr4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Russia, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Pétr, Pëtr

58 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.

Other recorded senses●

Petr is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Russian, "rock." Russianization of Peter.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Peter the Greatb. 1672RUnot in their usual nameTsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
• Peter II of Russiab. 1715RUnot in their usual nameEmperor of Russia (1715-1730)
• Peter III of Russiab. 1728DEnot in their usual nameThe seventh Emperor of Russia (1762)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskyb. 1840RUnot in their usual nameRussian composer (1840–1893)
• Peter Kropotkinb. 1842RUnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
• Pyotr Kapitsab. 1894RUnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist
• Petr Pavelb. 1961CZCzech general and statesman, 4th president of the Czech Republic
• Petr Kordab. 1968CZCzech tennis player
• Petr Čechb. 1982CZCzech footballer (born 1982)
• Petr Jiráčekb. 1986CZCzech Supercup winner, soccer player and player on the Czech national soccer team

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 154 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Petr?

We estimate roughly 2.3 million people bear Petr (counting its spellings and scripts) across 18 countries in our records.

In which country does Petr have the most bearers?

Petr is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled петр.

Where is Petr most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Petr is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 20 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Petr compared with other names?

In Russia, Petr is the 63rd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Petr a male or female name?

Petr 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.

What does the name Petr mean?

Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., tschechische Form von