Péta

given name · Latin script

Meaning: third-person singular past historic of péter

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Péta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ISIceland1 in 117K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 270K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,900 people, est.

Sources
26 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Péťa in CZ Czechia and Peťa in SK Slovakia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

third-person singular past historic of péter

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Péta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Péta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#385≈1,900 est.≈1 in 5.6K48Péťa26
US United States—3261 in 1M303—4
NL Netherlands—641 in 270K64—1
BR Brazil—211 in 10M171——
SE Sweden—101 in 1M10——
SK Slovakia—≈9 est.≈1 in 588K—Peťa8
IS Iceland—31 in 117K3——
GY Guyana—21 in 375K2——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Péta is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Peta, Peťá, Peťa, Péťa

  • English given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Petae, Peta, Petá, Petä, Peťa

  • Spanish name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Peta, Peťa, Petã, Péťa

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Péta is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, synonym of łapa

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, calx, heel

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Péta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20261—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Péta mean, and where does it come from?
third-person singular past historic of péter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Péta a male or female name?
Péta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Péta have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Péta in Czechia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled péťa.
How common is the name Péta?
In the United States, the national register counted 326 people named Péta in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
How common is Péta compared with other names?
In Czechia, Péta is the 385th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Péta” — the 385th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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