Piotr

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Петр in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 3 more, Petar in BG Bulgaria, HR Croatia, RS Serbia and 2 more, Peter in SK Slovakia, SI Slovenia, CH Switzerland and 1 more and Петро in UA Ukraine, FR France.

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◐

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

• English given name63K records spelled Piotr15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark

  Languages: English, Norwegian Bokmål, Danish

  Also written Pjotr

• French given name11K records spelled Piotr182 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

  Languages: French, English, German

  Also written Pierre, Peter, Pere, Petrus, Pita

• a separate given name3.5K records spelled Piotr2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Pi︠o︡tr

• Turkish given name950 records spelled Piotr3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Moldova, United Kingdom, Netherlands

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Piötr

52 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●

Piotr 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 Swedish, Piotr är en slavisk form av → Petrus.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Russian, de petros, pierre.

  as a name·Russian Names

• In Russian, var of Petr.

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

• In French, A transliteration of the Russian male given name Пётр (Pjotr)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Polish form of PETER .

  as a word

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●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 63 years between 1953–2018. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Petrusb. 1ILnot in their usual nameapostle of Jesus Christ
• 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
• Łukasz Piszczekb. 1985PLnot in their usual namePolish association football player
• Piotr Zielińskib. 1994PLPolish association football player (born 1994)
• Jakub Kiwiorb. 2000PLnot in their usual namePolish footballer (born 2000)

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 · 372 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Piotr?

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

In which country does Piotr have the most bearers?

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

Where is Piotr most common?

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

How common is Piotr compared with other names?

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

Is Piotr a male or female name?

Piotr 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 Piotr mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Peter