Petya
Fewer than two dozen women in Poland carry it, and no newborn girls have taken it in years. Slavic at root, it means "stone" or "rock".
Petya Pronunciation
Petya is pronounced pe-TIH-ah (/pɛˈtɨa/).
What Petya means
Where Petya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Petya comes to Poland as a Russian name, the familiar form of Pyotr. The stone in it is old. Pyotr descends from the Greek Petros, and Petros was coined to translate petra, the word for rock. The meaning "stone, rock" sits at the base of the name, skała and kamień in Polish.
In Russian usage Petya is the everyday shape of Pyotr, the version a friend uses. Anton Chekhov named the perpetual student in "The Cherry Orchard" Petya Trofimov. Leo Tolstoy called the youngest Rostov son Petya in "War and Peace." Sergei Prokofiev gave the name to the boy in "Peter and the Wolf," Petya in the Russian original.
On a Polish class register the form Petya reads as foreign, Slavic and eastern in one glance. It keeps its rock. Skała, kamień.
How many people are named Petya
1 in 1127192 women in Poland is named Petya. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10038 among female names.