Petar
Fewer than 200 men in Poland carry it, so meeting one sticks with you. The name comes from Greek petra, rock or stone, and reaches Polish through the South Slavic form used by Bulgarians, Serbians, and Croatians.
Petar Pronunciation
Petar is pronounced PE-tahr (/ˈpɛtar/).
What Petar means
Where Petar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Petar begins in Greek. The word petra meant rock, a mass of stone with weight enough to stand on. From it came the name Petros, and Petar is the South Slavic form used by Bulgarians, Serbians, and Croatians. The meaning stays close to the ground: kamień, skała.
A name built on stone tends to promise permanence, though the people who wear it do the actual work of proving it. Petar is not soft in the mouth. Two hard beats, and it sits on a class register without shrinking. Read it out at roll call and it arrives whole.
The sense of steadiness attached to the name over time, layered on top of the plain meaning of rock. That reading was never the origin. The origin is stone, petra, the thing a house is set on. A boy named Petar carries that word forward, meaning rock, meaning skała.
How many people are named Petar
1 in 112348 men in Poland is named Petar. 190 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2297 among male names.
Petar as a middle name
Petar is a first name for 190 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5689th, between Pelayo (4) and Piet (4).
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#5687 Pelagiusz4
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#5688 Pelayo4
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#5689 Petar4
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#5690 Piet4
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#5691 Placido4