Petré
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/petreː/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Petré is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From a medieval spelling variant of Peter.
- HUHungary1 in 72as Péter(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 90as Peter
- DEGermany≈1 in 100as Peter
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 Petré itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- #109 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 662 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72 (inferred from the name graph)
≈820,000 named Peter, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, as Péter
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Peter in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 6 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)From a medieval spelling variant of Peter.
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 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Petré 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 | #6 | ≈820,000 est. | ≈1 in 102 | listed | Peter | 350 |
| NG Nigeria | #22 | ≈710,000 est. | ≈1 in 328 | — | Peter | 171 |
| US United States | #77 | 464,396as Peter | 1 in 716 | 464K | Peter | 662 |
| GB United Kingdom | #20 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 193 | 7 | Peter | 465 |
| AU Australia | #9 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 140 | 4 | Peter | 391 |
| HU Hungary | #4 | 135,685as Péter | 1 in 72 | 136K | Peter | 237 |
| SE Sweden | #18 | 112,872as Peter | 1 in 90 | 113K | Peter | 196 |
| AT Austria | #8 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 117 | 9.6K | Peter | 218 |
| DK Denmark | #2 | 45,777as Peter | 1 in 128 | 46K | Peter | 253 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)- Lucie Petit-Diagreb. 1901FRnot in their usual nameFrench-Belgian athlete
- Gio Petréb. 1937SESwedish actress
- Margareta Petréb. 1943SESwedish artist
- Henrik Petréb. 1979SESwedish ice hockey player
- Ward Pétréb. 1997BEBelgian speed skater
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #65,951 |
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 Petré mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval spelling variant of Peter. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Petré?
- It depends on the language: in Swedish /petreː/; in Dutch /pətreː/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Petré have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 817 thousand people named Peter in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Petré most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Petré itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Hungary's: the national register counts about 1 in 72 people named Péter.
- How common is the name Petré?
- In the United States, the national register counted 464,396 people named Peter in 2020, about 1 in 716 residents.
- How common is Petré compared with other names?
- In Germany, Petré is the 6th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Petré?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petr%C3%A9The 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, “Petré” — the 6th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.