Given name & surname
Petr
“as solid and strong as a rock”
Petr is a variant of Peter. One Greek interpretation is “as solid and strong as a rock.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Petr is a variant of Peter. One Greek interpretation is “as solid and strong as a rock.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Petr is a variant of Peter. Peter has been associated with Greek, Aramaic, and Scottish Gaelic naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος, from Ancient Greek πέτρος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Petr through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 109
- 109 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,193 as a first name in 2020; 361 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Petr’s family of names
In Czech usage, Petr has a diminutive in Petruška. Petr shares a linguistic root with Peter. In Czech usage, Petr has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Pedro.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Petr has relatives in 47 languages.
50 related names in 47 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Petervariant · German, English
- Pettrlikely variant
- Petruškadiminutive · Czech
- Péťadiminutive · Czech
- Pichpet form · Czech
- Petříkdiminutive · Czech
- Petříčekdiminutive · Czech
- Pyotrvariant · English
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 54
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- PedroSpanish, Portuguese
- Petrafeminine form · Czech
- PierreFrench
- PietroItalian
- PieroItalian
- Petarsr-Latn, Croatian
- Petrosequivalent
- PieterDutch
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- Peerequivalent
- PiotrPolish
- PetrusDutch, German
- Peruequivalent
- Kepaequivalent
- PetterSwedish, Norwegian
- PerSwedish
- PederNorwegian, Cornish
- PetroEsperanto
- Pehrequivalent
- Peroequivalent
- 彼得Chinese
- Pietequivalent
- Pjeturequivalent
- Petkoequivalent
- Petteriequivalent
- Peteloequivalent
- Petriequivalent
- Peetuequivalent
- Pjeterequivalent
- PedrWelsh
- ПетроUkrainian
- Петарsr-Cyrl
- ΠέτροςGreek
- ПётрRussian, Belarusian
- PetruRomanian
- PeturRomanian, Faroese
- PietruMaltese
- PéterHungarian
- PēterisLatvian
- PetrasLithuanian
- 피터Korean
- PereCatalan
- ピーターJapanese
- PéturIcelandic
- PeadarIrish
- PětrUpper Sorbian
- פטרHebrew
- PietariFinnish
- PekaFinnish
- PeeterEstonian
- PětšLower Sorbian
- ПетърBulgarian
- ՊետրոսArmenian
- بطرسArabic
- PjetërAlbanian
See also 6
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Petr
- Petr ČechCzech footballer (born 1982)
- Petr PavelCzech general and statesman, 4th president of the Czech Republic (born 1961)
- Petr FialaCzech politician and politologistborn 1964
- Petr NečasCzech politician, former Prime Minister of the Czech Republicborn 1964
- Petr JiráčekCzech Supercup winner, soccer player and player on the Czech national soccer teamborn 1986
- Petr KordaCzech tennis playerborn 1968
- Petr ShelokhonovRussian actor and director1929–1999
- Petr GinzCzech victim of Holocaust (1928–1944)
- Petr AvenRussian businessman, politician and economistborn 1955
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.