Petar
The boy's name Petar has been in the national records since 1963, with 641 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 620 Petars are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Petar
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 641
- Estimated living today
- 620
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 4,370th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1963
How old the living Petars are
born that year still alive today
Of the 641 babies given the name since 1963, about 620 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Petars
- Petar Stoyanov (born 1952)Bulgarian politician and jurist
- Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813–1851)Prince-Bishop of Montenegro
- Petar Mladenov (1936–2000)former General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party
- Petar Zhekov (1944–2023)Bulgarian footballer
- Petar Sučić (born 2003)Croatian footballer
- Petar Kočić (1877–1916)Bosnian Serb writer
- Petar Nadoveza (1942–2023)Croatian footballer
- Petar Musa (born 1998)Croatian footballer
People named Petar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Petar is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Petar is most concentrated in Illinois (18.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Petar peaked:
Petar elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Petar | 249 | 545th |
| England and Wales boys | Petar | 158 | 1,923rd |
| France boys | Petar | 55 | 5,879th |
| Ireland boys | Petar | 6 | 749th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Petar: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Petar | 214 | 0.017% | 356th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Petar | 18 | 0.004% | 522nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Petar | 17 | 0.026% | 97th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Petar is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.02% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Petar by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Petar among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Petar | 14 | 23 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Petar lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 568 men called Petar were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Petar | 39 | 0.491 | 207 |
| Burgos | Petar | 24 | 0.132 | 536 |
| Soria | Petar | 5 | 0.109 | 605 |
| Valladolid | Petar | 26 | 0.101 | 611 |
| Lleida | Petar | 16 | 0.068 | 1,028 |
| Navarra | Petar | 22 | 0.065 | 982 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Petar against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.