# Petro (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/petro/  
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 | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 160 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 160 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Ultimately from Koine Greek Πέτρος (Pétros).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 5 | 4,089 |
| 1954 | 8 | 3,114 |
| 1959 | 5 | 4,423 |
| 1960 | 6 | 3,957 |
| 1969 | 8 | 3,512 |
| 1971 | 11 | 3,096 |
| 1972 | 7 | 4,324 |
| 1974 | 7 | 4,508 |
| 1975 | 7 | 4,659 |
| 1976 | 11 | 3,419 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,513 |
| 1988 | 5 | 8,199 |
| 1993 | 5 | 9,783 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,964 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,535 |

## People named Petro

- Petro Hulak-Artemovsky, author, university teacher and poet in the Russian empire (1790-1865)
- Petro Marko, Albanian writer (1913–1991)
- Petro Balabuyev, aeroplane designer, long-term head of the Antonov Aircraft Company
- Petro Nini Luarasi, Albanian journalist and activist (1864–1911)
- Petro Vlahos, American cinema pioneer (1916-2013)
- Petro Karmanskyi

## 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.