Given name & surname
Petro
“stone”
Petro is a masculine given name from Koine Greek. It is used in English, Spanish, Albanian, Esperanto, and 1 other language.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Petro is a romanization of Петро. Петро goes back to Ancient Greek Πέτρος, meaning “stone.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In Ukrainian use, Petro shares an earlier linguistic root with Peter. Peter has been associated with Greek, Aramaic, and Scottish Gaelic naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Petro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 160
- 160 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 11 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 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,404 as a first name in 2020; 5,250 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.
Petro’s family of names
In Esperanto usage, Petro has a diminutive in Peĉjo. Petro shares a linguistic root with Peter. Petro has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Piotr.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Petro has relatives in 10 languages.
8 related names in 10 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 41
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Petercognate · English, French
- Pedroequivalent
- Pierreequivalent
- PietroItalian
- Pieroequivalent
- Petarequivalent
- Petrosequivalent
- Pieterequivalent
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- Peerequivalent
- Petterequivalent
- PiotrPolish
- PetrCzech
- Peruequivalent
- Kepaequivalent
- Petrusequivalent
- Pederequivalent
- Perequivalent
- Pietequivalent
- Pjeturequivalent
- Pietariequivalent
- Pereequivalent
- Pēterisequivalent
- Peteloequivalent
- Petkoequivalent
- Petteriequivalent
- Pjetërequivalent
- Péterequivalent
- Peetuequivalent
- Petriequivalent
- Petrasequivalent
- Pjeterequivalent
- Pehrequivalent
- Péturequivalent
- Peroequivalent
- 彼得Chinese
- Peetroequivalent
- Pyotrequivalent
- Peeterequivalent
- Petruequivalent
- Пётрequivalent
- Petrováfeminine form
People named Petro
- Petro PoroshenkoPresident of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019born 1965
- Pyotr KoshevoySoviet military commander (1905-1976)
- Petro DoroshenkoHetman of Ukrainian Cossacks (1627–1698)
- Petro Konashevych-SahaidachnyHetman of Ukrainian Cossacks1582–1622
- Petro ShelestUkrainian politician (1908-1996)
- Petro SymonenkoUkrainian politicianborn 1952
- Pieter Willem KorthalsDutch botanist (1807–1892)
- Petro GrigorenkoUkrainian soviet dissident, general (1907–1987)
- Pyotr LeshchenkoRussian singer (1898–1954)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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