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Piotr

Boys' name

Form of Peter

Piotr has been given to 734 babies in the U.S. since 1973. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Piotr, 2021

1 in 565,000

Piotr over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Piotr: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Peter

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Piotr means

Piotr is a form of Peter.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Piotr is used in Polish and Belarusian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpjɔtr/ and /ˈpʲɔtr/ for Piotr.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Piotr is a form of Peter. Peter has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Piotr is used in French, Old Polish and Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Peter and Пётр.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Piotr is pronounced /pjɔtʁ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 734 boys were recorded with the name Piotr between 1973 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1993; its best national rank was #2,148 in 1993.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Piotr?

Piotr had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Piotr sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Piotr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Piotrs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Piotr was born before 1997 — so the typical Piotr is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
734
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (278).

Is Piotr rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (37)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,148
1993

Spellings of Piotr

Piotr is not the most common spelling — Pietro is, with 26.2% against Piotr's 7.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Piotr is used

Across 1910–2025, Piotr was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 65,031 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 25,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Piotr has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Piotr around the world

Where Piotr ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2017
    #415
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2006–2023
    #516
    in 2023
  • France
    1928–2024
    #6,255
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2018
    #471
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1991–2008
    #2,085
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Piotr by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,148
1993
Peak year
1993
37 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
734
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Piotr

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Piotr

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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