Petyr
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Petyr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bulgaria it is the 6th most common given name.
- BGBulgaria1 in 98as Петар(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 162as Petar
- USUnited States1 in 716as Peter
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Petyr 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72 (inferred from the name graph)
464,396 named Peter, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary, as Péter
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Petar in US United States, SE Sweden, HR Croatia and Петър in BG Bulgaria.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petyr 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 464,396as Peter | 1 in 716 | 464K | Petar | 175 |
| HU Hungary | — | 135,685as Péter | 1 in 72 | 136K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 112,872as Peter | 1 in 90 | 113K | Petar | 23 |
| BG Bulgaria | #6 | 70,898as Петар | 1 in 98 | 71K | Петър | 159 |
| DK Denmark | — | 45,777as Peter | 1 in 128 | 46K | — | 3 |
| HR Croatia | #12 | 26,068as Petar | 1 in 162 | 26K | Petar | 138 |
464,396 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling peter. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); NSI — most common given names (population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Petar Dertlievb. 1916BGBulgarian politician (1916–2000)
- Petar Mladenovb. 1936BGformer General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1936–2000)
- Petar Zhekovb. 1944BGBulgarian footballer (1944–2023)
- Petar Radevb. 1948BGBulgarian ice hockey player
- Petyr Popyordanovb. 1964BGBulgarian actor
- Petar Zografovb. 1964BGBulgarian cross-country skier
- Peter Kurumbashevb. 1968BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician
- Petar Ouzounovb. 1971BGvolleyball player
- Petar Dachevb. 1979BGBulgarian long jumper
- Petar Valchanovb. 1982BGBulgarian film director
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(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Petyr a male or female name?
- Petyr 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 Petyr have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 464 thousand people named Peter, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Petyr most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Petyr itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Hungary's: the national register counts about 1 in 72 people named Péter.
- How common is the name Petyr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 464,396 people named Peter in 2020, about 1 in 716 residents.
- How common is Petyr compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Petyr is the 6th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petyrThe 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 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, “Petyr” — the 6th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.