Given name · Belarusian · Russian
Пётр
“stone”
Пётр (Pjotr) is a masculine given name from Byzantine Greek, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Russian.
Belarusian and RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Peter.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Пётр goes back to Ancient Greek Πέτρος, meaning “stone.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Пётр comes from Byzantine Greek, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Russian usage, Пётр developed from Πέτρος.
Пётр’s family of names
In Russian usage, Пётр has a diminutive in Петрушка. In Russian usage, Пётр developed from the Ancient Greek form Πέτρος. In Belarusian usage, Пётр has a conventional equivalent in the English form Peter.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Пётр has relatives in 21 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Пётр comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 28
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- PeterEnglish, German
- Pedroborrowing · Spanish, izh
- PierreFrench
- PietroItalian
- Pieroequivalent
- Petrosequivalent
- PieterDutch
- Petroequivalent
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- PiotrPolish
- PetrCzech
- PetrusLatin
- Pēterisequivalent
- Peteloequivalent
- Petrasequivalent
- Պետրոսequivalent
- Peroequivalent
- 彼得Chinese
- Петреcognate · zle-ono
- Pjotrsborrowing · Latvian
- Petriderivative · Finnish
- Petruequivalent
- PeeterEstonian
- Петроalso known as · Ukrainian, Russian
- Πέτροςroot · Greek, Ancient Greek
- ПетърBulgarian
- Петӗрcv
- PjotrGerman
- PyotrEnglish
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Пётр
- Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyRussian composer (1840–1893)
- Peter the GreatTsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 17251672–1725
- Peter KropotkinRussian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
- Pyotr KapitsaSoviet physicist1894–1984
- Peter III of RussiaThe seventh Emperor of Russia, 1762 (lived 1728-1762)
- Peter II of RussiaEmperor of Russia (1715-1730)
- Pyotr StolypinRussian politician (1862–1911)
- Pyotr WrangelRussian army general of Baltic German origin (1878-1928)
- Pyotr BagrationGeneral of the Imperial Russian Army (1765–1812)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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