Petar is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Peter, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Petar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,168 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,168 in 1968; #6,354 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Petar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,354 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #2,168.
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Petar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,168 in 1968 · most boys in one year: 21 (2006).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Petar, making it the 6,354th most common boys’ name of the year, up 45 places from #6,399 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 14 boys named Petar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,168, reached in 1968. The most boys given the name in a single year was 21, in 2006. For comparison, it was #5,458 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Petar in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 6 babies. In all, 641 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 143 babies named Petar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 144 US boys were named Petar; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Peter (591,531 babies since 1880), Pedro (94,582 babies since 1880) and Pierre (19,143 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Petar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 14 | #6,354 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,399 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,608 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #8,152 |
| 2021 | — | — | 14 | #6,257 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,818 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #6,032 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #7,019 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,630 |
| 2015 | — | — | 17 | #5,458 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,542 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #10,447 |
| 2012 | — | — | 16 | #5,659 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,596 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,614 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,345 |
| 2008 | — | — | 16 | #5,699 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,373 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,468 |
| 2005 | — | — | 14 | #5,804 |
| 2004 | — | — | 14 | #5,719 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,609 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,410 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,934 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,503 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,958 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,384 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,561 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,787 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,825 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,218 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,674 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,201 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,820 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,263 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #5,079 |
| 1988 | — | — | 9 | #5,107 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,323 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,743 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,550 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,161 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,044 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #4,054 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,182 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,776 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,251 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,205 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,082 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,928 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,323 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,870 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,134 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,856 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,168 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,864 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,920 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).