Petö
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/pɛtø/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated
Petö is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * English habitational surname of Anglo-Norman origin for someone from Poitou, in France. * Borrowed from Hungarian Pető, a pet form of the personal name Péter.
- SESweden1 in 232K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
- BEBelgium1 in 781K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Petö itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 232K (inferred from the name graph)
≈73 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Petoe in US United States.
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)Two main origins: * English habitational surname of Anglo-Norman origin for someone from Poitou, in France. * Borrowed from Hungarian Pető, a pet form of the personal name Péter.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Petö is found
(measured from records)Petö 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Petö | 24 |
| SE Sweden | 44 | 1 in 232K | 44 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Petoe | 22 |
| AT Austria | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 474K | — | Petö | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 15 | 1 in 781K | 15 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Imre Petőb. 1882HUconductor, composer (1883–1944)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Petö mean, and where does it come from?
- Two main origins: * English habitational surname of Anglo-Norman origin for someone from Poitou, in France. * Borrowed from Hungarian Pető, a pet form of the personal name Péter. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Petö?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /pɛtø/; in Slovak /peto/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Petö?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 people named Petö in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petö. After it come Sweden, United States, Austria and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Petö most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Petö is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 232 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Petö?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 44 people named Petö, about 1 in 232 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pet%C3%B6The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Petö”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.