Petrea
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Petrea; from Peter
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɛtɹiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petrea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 152K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 163K
- DKDenmark1 in 163K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)
555 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Petrea; from Peter
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petrea 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.
555 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Petrea 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 Danish, a female given name, a feminine form of Peter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jesse Petreab. 1966USAmerican politician from Georgia
- Georgeta Petrea-Lazărb. 1973RORomanian athletics competitor
- Anton Petreab. 1975RORomanian association football player
- Gabriel Petreab. 1984RORomanian politician
- Nicolae PetreaRORomanian politician
- Maricel PetreaRORomanian politician from Schela, Galați County
- Vasile PetreaRORomanian politician from Homocea, Vrancea County
- Ștefan-Mihai PetreaROresearcher
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 560 | #37,429 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 555 | #39,607 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 544 | #42,858 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 307 | #11,849 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 307 | #11,816 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #32,270 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 36 | #14,155 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 29 | #39,169 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #80,748 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #183,706 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Petrea mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Petrea; from Peter Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Petrea?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɛtɹiə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Petrea have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 555 people named Petrea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petrea.
- Where is Petrea most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Petrea is densest in Norway — about 1 in 152 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Petrea?
- In the United States, the national register counted 555 people named Petrea in 2010, about 1 in 599 thousand residents.
- How common is Petrea compared with other names?
- In Romania, Petrea is the 199th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petreaThe 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, “Petrea” — the 199th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.