Petr
From Greek, with the plain sense of "stone, rock". Fewer than a thousand Polish men carry it, and most people here will never meet one.
Petr Pronunciation
Petr is pronounced PETR (/pɛtr/).
What Petr means
Where Petr comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Petr comes from the Greek petros, meaning stone or rock. In Greek, petros named a stone you could lift in your hand, while the related petra meant solid bedrock. The word entered the world of names through the Gospels, where the fisherman Simon was given a new name and called the rock on which a church would be built. Petr is the shape the name took in Czech and Slovak, a close cousin of the Polish Piotr.
The meaning stays plain in every language that borrowed it. Stone. Rock. Something that holds.
Read out from a school register, Petr lands on one firm syllable and one soft one. A child answering to it carries a word that named cliffs and foundations long before it named any person. The origin is Greek, the sense is stone, and that has not shifted in two thousand years.
How many people are named Petr
1 in 28807 men in Poland is named Petr. 741 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1085 among male names.
Petr's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Petr as a middle name
Petr is a first name for 741 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2990th, between Pavol (11) and Petter (11).
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#2988 Oğuz11
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#2989 Pavol11
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#2990 Petr11
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#2991 Petter11
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#2992 Prasanna11