Pétru
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pétru is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Ancient Greek Πετρος (Petros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).
- USUnited States1 in 507K(measured from records)
- MDMoldova1 in 141
- ISIceland1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Moldova (measured from records)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- 1 in 141 (inferred from the name graph)
23,843 people
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Petru in MD Moldova, US United States, ES Spain.
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)
- Ancient GreekΠετροςPetros(measured from records)
- Ancient Greek rootπέτροςpétros“stone, rock”(measured from records)
Ultimately from Ancient Greek Πετρος (Petros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra).
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pétru 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.
23,843 people counted by e-services.md — living population register. 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: e-services.md — living population register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pétru mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Ancient Greek Πετρος (Petros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and 1 other source.
- Is Pétru a male or female name?
- Pétru is a male 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 Pétru have the most bearers?
- In Moldova, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Pétru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petru.
- Where is Pétru most common?
- Pétru is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 141 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pétru?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 23,843 people named Pétru, about 1 in 141 residents.
- How common is Pétru compared with other names?
- In Moldova, Pétru is the 617th most common given name of 1,433 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A9truThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pétru” — the 617th most common given name in Moldova. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.