# Petr (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/petr/  
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 | 109 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 109 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 64, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | 9,921 |
| 1999 | 7 | 8,485 |
| 2000 | 6 | 10,011 |
| 2002 | 9 | 7,476 |
| 2003 | 9 | 7,680 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,738 |
| 2005 | 7 | 9,869 |
| 2007 | 6 | 11,993 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,191 |
| 2012 | 10 | 7,985 |
| 2014 | 12 | 6,958 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,778 |
| 2017 | 5 | 13,750 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,793 |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,632 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |

## People named Petr

- Petr Čech, Czech footballer (born 1982)
- Petr Pavel, Czech general and statesman, 4th president of the Czech Republic (born 1961)
- Petr Fiala, Czech politician and politologist
- Petr Nečas, Czech politician, former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
- Petr Jiráček, Czech Supercup winner, soccer player and player on the Czech national soccer team
- Petr Korda, Czech tennis player
- Petr Ginz, Czech victim of Holocaust (1928–1944)
- Petr Kouba, Czech football goalkeeper
- Petr Bezruč, Czech poet and short story writer (1867–1958)
- Petr Chelčický, 15th century Bohemian Christian radical
- Petr Kellner, Czech businessman (1964-2021)
- Petr Brandl, Czech painter and portrait painter (1668-1735)

## 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.