Given name & surname
Piotr
“as solid and strong as a rock”
Piotr is a variant of Peter. One Greek interpretation is “as solid and strong as a rock.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Piotr 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
Piotr 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
In Polish use, Piotr is used as a form of Peter.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Piotr through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 734
- 734 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 37 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 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 37 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,202 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Piotr’s family of names
In Polish usage, Piotr has a diminutive in PIETREK. Piotr shares a linguistic root with Peter. In Polish usage, Piotr has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Pedro.
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Around the world
Piotr has relatives in 48 languages.
57 related names in 48 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 59
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- PedroPortuguese, Spanish
- PierreFrench
- PietroItalian
- PieroItalian
- PetarCroatian, Bosnian
- Petrosequivalent
- Peerequivalent
- PetrusDutch, Latin
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- PetrCzech
- PetterSwedish
- PetreRomanian
- PederCornish, Danish
- Petroia, Esperanto
- PerDanish
- PeruBasque
- KepaBasque
- Pjeterequivalent
- Pehrequivalent
- Peroequivalent
- 彼得Chinese
- ПётрRussian, Belarusian
- PyotrEnglish
- Peeterequivalent
- Petruequivalent
- Pjeturequivalent
- Petkoequivalent
- Peteloequivalent
- Pjetërequivalent
- Petriequivalent
- Պետրոսequivalent
- Piotrafeminine form
- Pejterwym
- Pyjterwym
- PéterHungarian
- ПетроUkrainian
- Πέτροςgr, Greek
- ПетарSerbian
- PietGerman, Dutch
- PēterisLatvian
- PirLuxembourgish
- PetrasLithuanian
- PeteroLingala
- ПетірKazakh
- PereCatalan
- ピーターJapanese
- PéturIcelandic
- PeadarIrish
- PiitaGreenlandic
- PětrUpper Sorbian
- 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍂𐌿𐍃Gothic
- PiderWest Frisian
- PekkaFinnish
- PetteriFinnish
- PětšLower Sorbian
- ПетърBulgarian
- ПятроBelarusian
- PeioBasque
- PelloBasque
- بيترArabic
People named Piotr
- Piotr ZielińskiPolish association football player (born 1994)
- Piotr ŚwierczewskiPolish association football playerborn 1972
- Piotr TrochowskiGerman association football playerborn 1984
- Piotr MałachowskiPolish discus throwerborn 1983
- Piotr ŻyłaPolish ski jumperborn 1987
- Piotr JaroszewiczPrime Minister of Poland from 1970 to 1980 (1909–1992)
- Piotr SkargaPolish writer (1536-1612)
- Piotr SzulkinPolish film director and writer (1950–2018)
- Piotr MichaelAmerican actor and comedianborn 1988
Characters named Piotr: Piotr Skut (fictional character).
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