Petros
Fewer than 120 men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met a Petros. The name is Greek and plainly means "rock" or "stone".
Petros Pronunciation
Petros is pronounced PET-ros (/ˈpɛtrɔs/).
What Petros means
Where Petros comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Petros comes from Greek. The word petros meant a stone, a piece of rock you could lift in one hand. Ancient Greek kept petra for the larger mass, the cliff or the bedrock, and left petros for the loose stone. In Polish the sense lands as skała, kamień.
The most famous use of the name turns on that meaning. In the Greek text of Matthew's Gospel, Simon is given the name Petros, and the passage plays the stone against the rock the church will stand on. That renaming carried the Greek word out of the eastern Mediterranean and into the naming books of much of Europe.
The Greek form stayed rare in Poland. A boy signed in as Petros on a September class register wears the older shape of the word, before Latin and Polish reworked it. The meaning holds where it began: a stone.
How many people are named Petros
1 in 190591 men in Poland is named Petros. 112 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3220 among male names.
Petros's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Petros as a middle name
Petros is a first name for 112 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1880th, between Pekka (22) and Pinchas (22).
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#1878 Orestes22
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#1879 Pekka22
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#1880 Petros22
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#1881 Pinchas22
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#1882 Quinn22