Petrová
surname · Latin script
/pɛtr̩ovaː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petrová is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bulgarian and Russian Петрова (Petrova), feminine form of Петров (Petrov).
- CZCzechia1 in 2.6K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 6.4K
- BGBulgaria1 in 105as Петрова
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 Petrová 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.
- Bulgaria (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
66,117 named Петрова, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Petrova in US United States, BG Bulgaria, EE Estonia and Петрова in RU Russia, MK North Macedonia.
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)
Borrowed from Bulgarian and Russian Петрова (Petrova), feminine form of Петров (Petrov).
Sources 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petrová 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #12 | 66,117as Петрова | 1 in 105 | 71K | Petrova | 151 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Петрова | 93 |
| US United States | — | 6,649as Pedro | 1 in 50K | 175K | Petrova | 185 |
| CZ Czechia | #196 | 4,196 | 1 in 2.6K | 4.2K | Petrová | 54 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 5.3K | — | 2 |
| MK North Macedonia | #107 | 3,283as Петрова | 1 in 648 | 3.3K | Петрова | 17 |
| SK Slovakia | #270 | 1,666 | 1 in 3.3K | 1.7K | Petrová | 35 |
| EE Estonia | #329 | 1,085 | 1 in 1.1K | 1.1K | Petrova | 24 |
66,117 people counted by NSI — most common surnames (annual press release), 2022, counting the spelling петрова. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSI — most common surnames (annual press release); NSI — most common surnames; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; State Statistical Office — living population names; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register). 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)
- Helena Petrováb. 1890CZHolocaust victim (born 1890)
- Marie Petrováb. 1914Czechoslovak politician
- Eva Petrováb. 1928CZCzech art critic, art historian, and writer
- Elena Petrováb. 1929CZCzech musician
- Marta Petrováb. 1951Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament and Slovak nation politician
- Jana Petrováb. 1966CZCzech member of Czech Parliament (1996–1998) and politician
- Barbora Petrováb. 1985CZCzech actress (*1985)
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 4.2K | #195 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 4.2K | #195 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4.2K | #194 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1.7K | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Petrová mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Bulgarian and Russian Петрова (Petrova), feminine form of Петров (Petrov). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Petrová?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛtr̩ovaː/ (IPA) for Czech.
- In which country does Petrová have the most bearers?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 66 thousand people named Петрова, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Petrová most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Petrová is densest in Estonia — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Petrová?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 4,196 people named Petrová, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Petrová compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Petrová is the 12th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petrov%C3%A1The 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, “Petrová” — the 12th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.