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Globally, Pëtr (Пётр , Pëtr) is a common masculine first name. The first name Pëtr is habitual in Kazakhstan, where it is quite a common boy's name, Moldova, and Belarus, where it is quite a rare male name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Belarus. Very seldom, Pëtr is the last name as well as the forename.
Pëtr is also a popular 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, and in many other works.