Petrit

given name · Albanian · Latin script

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

Petrit is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: hawk, goshawk, falcon.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 492◐
  • XKKosovo1 in 1.4K
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 9.1K

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

≈7.1K ●

across 13 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
93 ●

22K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 492 ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

PetritLatin · Albanian●31K records
ПетритCyrillic · Macedonian●233 records
ΠετριτGreek · Greek●0 records

Locally spelled Петрит in MK North Macedonia.

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●

hawk, goshawk, falcon

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

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

Where Petrit is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania#126,25319K rec.1 in 4926.3KPetrit51
IT Italy—474454 rec.—1Petrit25
US United States—358850 rec.1 in 929K358Petrit93
XK Kosovo#255344406 rec.—3KPetrit9
GB United Kingdom—23668 rec.——Petrit27
MK North Macedonia—233△3 rec.1 in 9.1K233Петрит5
GR Greece—164106 rec.——Petrit17
SE Sweden—114△17 rec.1 in 89K114Petrit12
CH Switzerland—8970 rec.——Petrit14
SI Slovenia—6984 rec.1 in 30K69Petrit4
BE Belgium—3931 rec.——Petrit5
HR Croatia—3657 rec.1 in 117K36Petrit9

Roughly 6.3K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 492). 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●

  • Albanian31K87%
  • English9893%
  • German9383%
  • French4301%
  • Croatian4251%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Albanian30,51887%
English9893%
German9383%
French4301%
Croatian4251%

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◐

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

  • English given name2.3K records spelled Petrit6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pétrit

  • French given name479 records spelled Petrit3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Pétrit

  • Thai surname337 records spelled Petrit23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States

    Also written เพชรฤทธิ์, เพ็ชรฤทธิ์, Phetrit, Petcharit, เพ็ชร์ฤทธิ์

  • Spanish given name211 records spelled Petrit3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pētrït

  • Romanian given name123 records spelled Petrit2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland

    Also written Petriț

26 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●

05010015019401960198020002020118 · 1982

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Petrit in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1930–2024
Yearrecords
19301
19381
19401
19411
19472
19492
19511
19521
19531
19542
19552
19573
19582
19593
19608
19619
196216
196315
196414
196515
196615
196723
196821
196917
197027
197124
197228
197335
197441
197554
197673
197770
197874
197985
1980101
1981115
1982118
1983115
198494
1985107
1986106
1987114
198891
1989116
199092
199177
199281
199387
199473
199563
199657
1997103
199885
199966
200085
200166
200243
200339
200430
200527
200623
200716
200821
20096
201012
20119
20123
201310
20146
20154
20164
20172
20182
20193
20202
20212
20223
20233
20241

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 79 years between 1930–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Petrit Dume, b. 1920Petrit Kumi, b. 1930Petrit Dibra, b. 1953Petrit Vasili, b. 1958Petrit Selimi, b. 1979Petrit Çeku, b. 1985Petrit Frrokaj, b. 1985Petrit Halilaj, b. 1986Petrit Zhubi, b. 1988Petrit Hoxhaj, b. 1990

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 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Petrit
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—6.3K#13
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—3K#206
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020358#26,105
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—136#6,259
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1982118—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1989116—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1983115—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1981115—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—114#7,793
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1987114—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1985107—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1986106—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 153 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Petrit?
We estimate roughly 7.1 thousand people bear Petrit (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Petrit have the most bearers?
We estimate about 6.3 thousand people bear Petrit in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled petrit.
Where is Petrit most common?
Petrit is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 492 people carrying it.
How common is Petrit compared with other names?
In Albania, Petrit is the 12th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
Is Petrit a male or female name?
Petrit 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 Petrit mean?
Recorded meaning: hawk, goshawk, falcon
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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, “Petrit” — the 12th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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