Petrenko
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pʲɪtrʲenkə/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from петренко
Petrenko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Ukraine it is the 23rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ukrainian Петренко (Petrenko). Petrenko is also written Петренко in Cyrillic and პეტრენკო in Georgian.
- PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 12K
- NONorway1 in 19K
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 Petrenko 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 named Петренко, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Petrenko in other scripts: Cyrillic and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Петренко in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more.
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.
How to pronounce Petrenko
- Russian:/pʲɪtrʲenkə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Ukrainian Петренко (Petrenko).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Petrenko is found
(measured from records)Petrenko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #245 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Петренко | 168 |
| UA Ukraine | #23 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 841 | — | Петренко | 77 |
| PL Poland | — | 3,532 | 1 in 11K | 2K | — | 3 |
| BY Belarus | #474 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Петренко | 24 |
| US United States | — | 613 | 1 in 543K | 738 | Petrenko | 164 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Петренко | 9 |
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 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Aleksei Petrenkob. 1938RUUkrainian and Russian actor (1938–2017)
- Kirill Petrenkob. 1972ATRussian conductor
- Igor Petrovich Petrenkob. 1977RURussian actor
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Petrenko mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Ukrainian Петренко (Petrenko). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Petrenko?
- In Russian /pʲɪtrʲenkə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Petrenko?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Петренко in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Poland, Belarus and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Petrenko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Petrenko is densest in Poland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Petrenko?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,532 people named Petrenko in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Petrenko compared with other names?
- In Russia, Petrenko is the 245th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petrenkoThe 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, “Petrenko” — the 245th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.