Pëtr

Name: Pëtr: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pëtr is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Czech Petr, from Latin Petrus.

rarermore common

CZCzechia1 in 20(measured from records)
PLPoland1 in 56as Piotr
SESweden1 in 90as Peter

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pëtr itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Poland (measured from records)
: #295 (measured from records)
: 5 (measured from records)
Record sources: 318 (measured from records)
: 1 in 20 (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

ПетрCyrillic

PiotrLatin

ΠετρGreek

피오트르Hangul

პიოთრGeorgian

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Peter

Locally spelled Piotr in PL Poland, US United States, SE Sweden, Петр in RU Russia and Petr in CZ Czechia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

Pëtr

Old CzechPetr(measured from records)
LatinPetrus(measured from records)

Inherited from Old Czech Petr, from Latin Petrus.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Pëtr counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pëtr is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
PL Poland	#2	682,519as Piotr	1 in 56	686K	Piotr	276
CZ Czechia	#2	544,270	1 in 20	544K	Petr	218
US United States	—	464,396as Peter	1 in 716	464K	Piotr	318
RU Russia	#63	≈270,000 est.	≈1 in 523	register #19	Петр	209
HU Hungary	—	135,685as Péter	1 in 72	136K	—	2
SE Sweden	#782	112,872as Peter	1 in 90	113K	Piotr	64
DK Denmark	—	45,777as Peter	1 in 128	46K	—	1

682,519 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

Pëtr is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Pětr, Petr
English given name10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Petr, Pětr, Petř, Pet''R
French given name4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Russia, United States, Belgium
Also written Petr, Pétr
Hindi surname31 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Languages: Hindi, Hebrew, Bangla
Also written Patar, פטר, Peter, פיטר, פטרוס
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Petr
Hungarian given name6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, Hungary, Estonia, United States
Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian
Also written Petr, Pétr

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.

Notable people with this name

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 Bagrationb. 1765RUnot in their usual nameGeneral of the Imperial Russian Army (1765–1812)
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 Stolypinb. 1862DEnot in their usual nameRussian politician (1862–1911)
Pyotr Wrangelb. 1878LTnot in their usual nameRussian army general of Baltic German origin (1878-1928)
Pyotr Kapitsab. 1894RUnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist
Peter Svidlerb. 1976RUnot in their usual nameRussian chess player

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

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pëtr under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pëtr mean, and where does it come from?: Inherited from Old Czech Petr, from Latin Petrus. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
Is Pëtr a male or female name?: Pëtr 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.
In which country does Pëtr have the most bearers?: In Poland, the national register counted about 683 thousand people named Piotr, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pëtr most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pëtr is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 20 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pëtr?: In Czechia, the national register counted 544,270 people named Pëtr, about 1 in 20 residents.
How common is Pëtr compared with other names?: In Poland, Pëtr is the 2nd most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%ABtr

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pëtr” — the 2nd most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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