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Piotr

Still the second most-given boy's name in Poland, one of those you meet everywhere, though it's given a little less each year now. From the Greek petros: rock, the plain kind you can stand on.

Piotr Pronunciation

Piotr is pronounced PYOTR (/pjɔtr/).

Related names
Petrus Piotrek
Alive in 2025
686,024
Newborns 2025
1,146
National rank
#2
Next name day
18 January
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What Piotr means

Where Piotr comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Piotr comes from the Greek Petros, and Petros means rock. The name began as a translation. When Simon the fisherman was given a new name in the Gospels, the Aramaic word kepha, rock, passed into Greek as Petros, and Poland received it centuries later as Piotr. So the short meaning, skała, is not a later gloss. It stands in the origin itself.

In daily speech the name shortens to Piotrek. A teacher reads it down a class register, and the boy answers to the shorter form long before he signs the full one on any official paper. Petronela is the cross-gender relative, drawn from the same Latin stock around Petronius, and it rests on the same rocky ground.

Piotr keeps his name-day on the twenty-ninth of June, shared with Paul. Millions of Polish men carry it, and each summer the imieniny brings a round of wishes. The meaning underneath stays plain: rock, skała, Petros.

When Piotr celebrates name day

Piotr appears 81 times in the Polish name day calendar, 7 of them as a main name, the first on 18 January.

Next name day
18 January
Monday in 2027
Next one in 85 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Piotr

1 in 31 men in Poland is named Piotr. 686,024 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2 among male names.

People with the name Piotr 2019 → 2025
686,024 −14,267 since 2019
2020 699,765 −526
2021 697,740 −2,025
2022 694,913 −2,827
2023 692,123 −2,790
2024 689,316 −2,807
2025 686,024 −3,292

Piotr's popularity over time

1,146 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #64 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #2 name among living men, even as it slips to #64 among newborns.

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1,146 newborns with the name Piotr in 2025
national rank #64 that year

Where parents choose Piotr

Piotr is most popular in Podlaskie, 46% above the national average (644 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+20%) and Silesian (+19%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Pomeranian, 23% and 16% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Podlaskie
    +46%
    1 in 102 babies
  • Opole
    +20%
    1 in 125 babies
  • Silesian
    +19%
    1 in 126 babies
Chosen least
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    −23%
    1 in 194 babies
  • Pomeranian
    −16%
    1 in 177 babies
  • Subcarpathian
    −15%
    1 in 176 babies

Piotr as a middle name

Piotr is a first name for 686,024 men in Poland and a middle name for another 603,686, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2nd, between Jan (638,387) and Stanisław (447,673).

As a first name
686,024
As a middle name
603,686
first name 53% middle name 47%
Middle-name ranking men

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