Petras
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Petras is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Peter (biblical character).
- LTLithuania1 in 48◐
- ISIceland1 in 44K
- LVLatvia1 in 118K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈57K ●
- Sources
- 93 ●
- 1 in 48 ◐
across 7 countries
4.0K records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Meaning & origin●
Peter (biblical character).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #10 | 56,369△ | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 48 | 56K | Petras | 93 |
| US United States | — | 571 | 1.1K rec. | — | 1.8K | Petras | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 178 | 119 rec. | — | — | Petras | 35 |
| PH Philippines | — | 154 | 978 rec. | — | — | Petras | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | 57 | 52 rec. | 1 in 3.7M | 57 | Petras | 28 |
| SE Sweden | — | 48△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 213K | 48 | Petras | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 39 | 19 rec. | — | 95 | Petras | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 29 | 18 rec. | — | 260 | Petras | 10 |
| RU Russia | — | 25 | 13 rec. | — | — | Petras | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 24 | 0 rec. | 1 in 1.6M | 31 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | 21 | 27 rec. | — | — | Petras | 9 |
| LV Latvia | — | 16△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 118K | 16 | Petras | 5 |
Roughly 56K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 48). 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●
- Lithuanian173K97%
- Hindi1.5K1%
- English1K1%
- Portuguese6051%
- Spanish3071%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 172,978 | 97% |
| Hindi | 1,473 | 1% |
| English | 1,031 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 605 | 1% |
| Spanish | 307 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Petras 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 Latin, accusative plural of petra
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 14 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2014 | 23 |
| 2015 | 23 |
| 2016 | 24 |
| 2017 | 27 |
| 2018 | 34 |
| 2019 | 36 |
| 2020 | 34 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 12 years between 2009–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Petras Vileišisb. 1851LTLithuanian engineer and publisher (1851–1926)
- Petras Rimšab. 1881LTLithuanian sculptor (1881-1961)
- Petras Klimasb. 1891LTLithuanian diplomat and historian (1891-1969)
- Petras Kubiliūnasb. 1894LTLithuanian general and politician (1894-1946)
- Petras Karvelisb. 1897LTLithuanian politician
- Petras Griškevičiusb. 1924LTLithuanian politician (1924-1987)
- Petras Stankerasb. 1948LTLithuanian historian
- Petras Vaitiekūnasb. 1953LTLithuanian politician
- Petras Geniušasb. 1961LTLithuanian musician
- Petras Kuneikab. 1991actor
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 43 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — top-50 given names | — | 56K | #5 |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai | — | 56K | #5 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,252 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,265 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,896 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 260 | #3,928 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 170 | #4,905 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 154 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 95 | #28,659 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 95 | #28,449 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 86 | #5,629 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 79 | #75,534 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 86 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Petras?
- We estimate roughly 57 thousand people bear Petras (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Petras have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 56 thousand people bear Petras in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled petras.
- Where is Petras most common?
- Petras is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 48 people carrying it.
- How common is Petras compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Petras is the 10th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
- Is Petras a male or female name?
- Petras 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 Petras mean?
- Recorded meaning: Peter (biblical character).
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About this data
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, “Petras” — the 10th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.