# Petar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/petar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 641 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 641 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 158, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 8,596 |
| 2012 | 16 | 5,659 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,447 |
| 2014 | 13 | 6,542 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,458 |
| 2016 | 13 | 6,630 |
| 2017 | 15 | 5,998 |
| 2018 | 12 | 7,019 |
| 2019 | 15 | 6,032 |
| 2020 | 20 | 4,818 |
| 2021 | 14 | 6,257 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8,152 |
| 2023 | 17 | 5,608 |
| 2024 | 14 | 6,399 |
| 2025 | 14 | 6,354 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,319 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,175 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,112 |
| 2019 | 12 | 1,869 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,125 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Petar

- Petar Stoyanov, Bulgarian politician and jurist (born 1952)
- Petar Mladenov, former General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1936–2000)
- Petar Zhekov, Bulgarian footballer (1944–2023)
- Petar Sučić, Croatian footballer (born 2003)
- Petar Kočić, Bosnian Serb writer (1877-1916)
- Petar Musa, Croatian footballer
- Petar Nadoveza, Croatian footballer (1942–2023)
- Petar Preradović, Croatian poet (1818–1872)
- Petar Metličić, Croatian handball player
- Petar Lesov, Bulgarian boxer
- Petar Zrinski, Croatian military commander and a writer
- Petar Rajič, Canadian archbishop (born 1959)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.