Pétrin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: kneading trough

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pétrin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 170K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 323K
  • HRCroatia1 in 38K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,052 people

Sources
190 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Petrin in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more.

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)

kneading trough

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pétrin 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 Pétrin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,0521 in 201K1.1K—1
US United States1,0301 in 323K1KPetrin190
IT Italy≈500 est.≈1 in 125KlistedPetrin15
CA Canada≈470 est.≈1 in 79K—Petrin72
GB United Kingdom≈390 est.≈1 in 170K—Petrin13
TN Tunisia≈210 est.≈1 in 56K—Petrin1
HR Croatia1121 in 38K112——
HU Hungary≈96 est.≈1 in 102K—Petrin9
SI Slovenia341 in 62K34—1

1,052 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Pétrin is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Honduras

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Petrin, Petrín

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Petrin

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bulgaria, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Petrin, Петрин

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Italy

    Also written Petrin

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Petrin

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Petrin

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)

Pétrin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, altération de Patrin, dérivé probable de pâtre, surnom d’un berger

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pétrin mean, and where does it come from?
kneading trough Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Pétrin have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Pétrin, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pétrin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pétrin is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pétrin?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,052 people named Pétrin, about 1 in 201 thousand residents.

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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, “Pétrin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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