Petra

given name · Czech · Latin script

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

Petra is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, Petrus, equivalent to English Petra.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 52◐
  • SISlovenia1 in 232
  • HRCroatia1 in 237

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

≈326K ●

across 14 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
169 ●

80K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 52 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

PetraLatin · Czech●968K records
ПетраCyrillic · Bulgarian●2.4K records
ᲞეტრაGeorgian · Georgian●22 records
ΠετραGreek · Greek●11 records

Locally spelled Петра in UA Ukraine, MK North Macedonia, RU Russia.

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●

a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, Petrus, equivalent to English Petra

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Petra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#25205,386△15K rec.1 in 52205KPetra169
HU Hungary#9927,698△4K rec.1 in 35328KPetra155
US United States—22,874△9K rec.1 in 15K23KPetra155
HR Croatia#4717,85228K rec.1 in 23720KPetra131
SE Sweden#40815,627△1.5K rec.1 in 65316KPetra47
ES Spain—15,421△1.4K rec.1 in 3.2K17KPetra46
SI Slovenia#319,066△596 rec.1 in 2329.1KPetra58
FI Finland#4666,602△1.2K rec.1 in 8447.3KPetra61
BG Bulgaria#2904,8143.9K rec.——Petra42
NL Netherlands—4,1143.6K rec.—19KPetra34
SK Slovakia#1183,365865 rec.——Petra128
GB United Kingdom—2,0191.3K rec.——Petra79

Roughly 205K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 52). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Czech968K30%
  • Spanish581K18%
  • German540K17%
  • English364K11%
  • Hungarian328K10%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech968,27230%
Spanish580,74518%
German539,70317%
English363,93211%
Hungarian328,18310%

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◐

Petra is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name1.1M records spelled Petra28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Netherlands, Venezuela

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written Pétra, Pètra, PetrÅ, Pętrą, Pëtra

  • Spanish given name632K records spelled Petra17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, Mexico, Spain, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Pétra, Pétrá, Pëträ, Petrá, Pètra

  • Catalan given name28K records spelled Petra9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Pétra, Pètra, Pêtra, Pëtra, Pętrâ

  • a separate given name19K records spelled Petra6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada

    Also written Pètra, Peṭrā, Petrà, Petrá, Pétra

  • Thai surname1.1K records spelled Petra8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Thailand, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Patra, เภตรา, เพตรา, Phetra, เพตร้า

  • Korean given name618 records spelled Petra4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, South Korea, Belgium

    Also written Fitrah, 페트라, 피트라

  • a separate given name556 records spelled Petra2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands

    Also written Pêtrã

64 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●

Petra is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, a female given name, masculine equivalent Péter, equivalent to English Petra

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Petra

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, Myrceugenia exsucca, a tree of Chile and Argentina.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, stone, a weight equal to 14 pounds.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Petra är en femininform till → Petrus. Variantformen Petrea var populär på 1800-talet, kanske efter huvudpersonen i Fredrika Bremers mycket lästa roman Hemmet (1839). I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 29 juni.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

050100150200190019502000197 · 1927

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Petra in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
188110
18829
18839
18849
188515
188619
188717
188824
188924
189018
189118
189224
189323
189442
189527
189633
189724
189826
189922
190040
190137
190237
190326
190443
190543
190640
190751
190840
190950
191065
191162
191263
191385
1914111
1915120
191699
1917123
1918134
1919145
1920152
1921166
1922189
1923168
1924187
1925189
1926174
1927197
1928182
1929187
1930176
1931168
1932141
1933120
1934139
1935106
1936115
1937121
1938117
1939106
1940108
194181
194297
1943103
1944103
194593
1946116
1947115
1948131
1949113
1950130
195198
195288
1953115
1954103
1955100
1956118
1957109
195892
1959106
1960137
196199
1962116
1963113
1964138
1965156
1966130
1967124
1968134
1969113
1970130
1971130
1972117
1973122
1974120
1975101
1976123
1977101
1978120
1979101
1980116
198186
198267
198396
198489
198591
198675
1987111
198879
198973
199076
199178
199287
199390
199494
199581
199685
199784
199878
199970
200091
200191
200280
200380
200489
2005122
2006101
2007124
2008133
2009135
201099
2011118
2012122
2013134
2014145
2015176
2016158
2017165
2018144
2019172
2020175
2021151
2022140
2023149
2024147
2025161

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Lynn Margulis, b. 1938Petra Roth, b. 1944Petra Kelly, b. 1947Petra De Sutter, b. 1963Laurentien Brinkhorst, b. 1966Petra Schmidt-Schaller, b. 1980September, b. 1984Petra Kvitová, b. 1990Petra Martić, b. 1991Petra Vlhová, b. 1995

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 117 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Petra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—205K#25
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—103K#28
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202528K#49
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202023K#1,465
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202120K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—19K#186
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202118K#43
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—17K#209
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—16K#286
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—15K#419
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202011K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20259.1K#13

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 1,196 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Petra?
We estimate roughly 326 thousand people bear Petra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Petra have the most bearers?
We estimate about 205 thousand people bear Petra in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled petra.
Where is Petra most common?
Petra is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 52 people carrying it.
How common is Petra compared with other names?
In the Czechia, Petra is the 25th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
Is Petra a male or female name?
Petra is a female 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 Petra mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name from Ancient Greek, masculine equivalent Peter, Petrus, equivalent to English Petra
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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, “Petra” — the 25th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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