Petrit

given name · Latin script

Meaning: hawk, goshawk, falcon

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pˈɛtrɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Petrit is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 492(measured from records)
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 549
  • SISlovenia1 in 30K

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 Petrit 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.

Albania (measured from records)

6,253 people

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 492 (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PetritLatin(measured from records)
ΠετριτGreek(measured from records)
ПетритCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

hawk, goshawk, falcon

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Petrit 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.

Where Petrit is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania#56,2531 in 4926.3KPetrit52
XK Kosovo#52≈3,500 est.≈1 in 5493KPetrit12
IT Italy—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 62K1Petrit23
US United States—3591 in 927K358Petrit89
GR Greece—≈240 est.≈1 in 45K—Petrit20
MK North Macedonia—233as Петрит1 in 9.1K233—5
CH Switzerland—≈200 est.≈1 in 41K—Petrit11
SI Slovenia#481691 in 30K69Petrit3

6,253 people counted by INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Petrit is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pétrit

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Switzerland

    Also written Pétrit

  • Thai surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written เพชรฤทธิ์, เพ็ชรฤทธิ์, Phetrit, Petcharit, เพ็ชร์ฤทธิ์

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pētrït

  • Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Kosovo

    Also written Petriț

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Petrit Dume, b. 1920Petrit Kumi, b. 1930Petrit Dibra, b. 1953Petrit Vasili, b. 1958Petrit Selimi, b. 1979Petrit Çeku, b. 1985Petrit Frrokaj, b. 1985Petrit Halilaj, b. 1986Petrit Zhubi, b. 1988Petrit Hoxhaj, b. 1990

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)

InformalPërshëndetje Petrit,Hi Petrit, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Petrit
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—6.3K#13
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—3K#206
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020358#26,105
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1982118—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1989116—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1983115—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1981115—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1987114—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1985107—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1986106—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1997103—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1980101—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Petrit mean, and where does it come from?
hawk, goshawk, falcon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How common is the name Petrit?
In Albania, the national register counted 6,253 people named Petrit, about 1 in 492 residents.
How common is Petrit compared with other names?
In Albania, Petrit is the 5th most common given name of 11,910 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Petrit?
A machine transcription gives /pˈɛtrɪt/ (IPA) for Albanian.
Is Petrit a male or female name?
Petrit is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Petrit have the most bearers?
In Albania, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Petrit, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petrit.
Where is Petrit most common?
Petrit is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 492 people carrying it.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petrit

The 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, “Petrit” — the 5th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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