# Pyotr (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/pyotr/  
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 | Petr |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Russian Пётр (Pjotr). Doublet of Peter.

## 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.

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## In other languages

- Dutch: Pjotr
- Finnish: Pjotr
- French: Piotr
- German: Pjotr
- Hungarian: Pjotr
- Italian: Pëtr
- Polish: Piotr
- Romanian: Piotr, Пьотр
- Spanish: Piotr
- Swedish: Pjotr
- Turkish: Pyotr

## People named Pyotr

- Pyotr Bagration, General of the Imperial Russian Army (1765–1812)
- Pyotr Rumyantsev, Field Marshal of Russia (1725-1796)
- Pyotr Anjou, arctic explorer and admiral of Russian Navy (1796–1869)
- Pyotr Dolgov, Air force colonel (1920–1962)
- Pyotr Pochynchuk, Belarusian racewalker (1954-1991)
- Pyotr Ivashutin, General of the army (1909-2002)
- Pyotr Konovnitsyn
- Pyotr Kirillov, Erzya writer, journalist, drama writer
- Pyotr Baluyev, General in the Imperial Russian Army
- Pyotr Lysenko, Belarusian archaeologist
- Pyotr Savitsky, Ethnographer (1895–1968)
- Pyotr Ten, footballer

## 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.