Petia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Petia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- BGBulgaria1 in 238as Петя(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 34Kas Петя
- USUnited States1 in 924Kas Petya
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 Petia 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 694K (inferred from the name graph)
29,273 named Петя, 2018
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Petya in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria and 1 more and Петя in BG Bulgaria, RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petia 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 | #26 | 29,273as Петя | 1 in 238 | 29K | Петя | 140 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Петя | 59 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Петя | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Petya | 81 |
| US United States | — | 360as Petya | 1 in 924K | 350 | Petya | 139 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 2 | Petya | 16 |
| CZ Czechia | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Petya | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 694K | 40 | — | 2 |
29,273 people counted by NSI — most common given names (population), 2018. 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: NSI — most common given names (population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Petia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In umb, desire
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Petya Aleksandrovab. 1948BGBulgarian writer, poet, journalist
- Petrab. 1963BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian pop-folk singer
- Petia Stavrevab. 1977BGBulgarian politician
- Petiab. 1978BGPop singer
- Petia Todorovab. 1978BGbadminton player
- Petia Podorovab. 1978BGbadminton player
- Preslavab. 1984BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
- Petia Dachevab. 1985BGBulgarian triple jumper
- Petya Barakovab. 1994BGBulgarian volleyball player
- Petia RadevaBGresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 14 countries.
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
- Is Petia a male or female name?
- Petia is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Petia?
- In the etymology graph, Pete, Pierrette and Perrine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Petia have the most bearers?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Петя, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Petia?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted 29,273 people named Петя in 2018, about 1 in 238 residents.
- How common is Petia compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Petia is the 26th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Petia?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petiaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Petia” — the 26th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.