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Across the world, Petja (Петя , Petja ) is quite a rare gender-neutral first name. The first name Petja is characteristic of Bulgaria, where it is quite a common girly name, Moldova, where it is quite a common masculine name, and Slovenia, where it is quite a rare girly name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Eastern Europe, particularly Bulgaria, Russia, and Moldova. Very seldom, Petja is the last name as well as the forename.
Petja is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Colossus , the fictional character in Marvel Comics, Deadpool 2; Pierre Bezukhov , the protagonist of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace; Pyotr Grinyov , character in The Captain's Daughter; Ultimate Colossus , character in Ultimate X-Men and Pyotr Alexandrovitch Valkovsky , the character from Dostoyevsky's Humiliated and Insulted, among other works.