Petre
Only about 70 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. Greek at root, from the word for stone or rock.
Petre Pronunciation
Petre is pronounced PET-re (/ˈpɛtrɛ/).
What Petre means
Where Petre comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Petre begins in Greek. The word petra named a rock or a cliff. Its shorter cousin petros named a single stone, small enough to hold. From that root the name grew, and the meaning holds fast: stone, rock.
The most famous bearer of the root is Saint Peter, whom the Gospel of Matthew calls the rock on which a church would stand. Petre is the form the name took across south-eastern Europe, in Romanian and its neighbours, while Polish kept Piotr. Same Greek stone, different ending.
Picture a Petre on a school register in a Polish class. He sits among the Piotrs, marked by four letters and one old idea. The name asks little, and it delivers exactly that: stone, rock.
How many people are named Petre
1 in 288462 men in Poland is named Petre. 74 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4177 among male names.
Petre as a middle name
Petre is a first name for 74 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 90/10 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3655th, between Percy (8) and Petri (8).
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#3653 Padraig8
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#3654 Percy8
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#3655 Petre8
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#3656 Petri8
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#3657 Phan8