Petros is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Petros in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Petros in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Petros by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Petros ranks at #5,875. That means there are 5,874 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Petros.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Petros. Boys named Petros have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,170 Petros ranked higher than ever before in 1979. By comparison, there have been 88 years in which the first name Petros has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1985. In general, parents name their sons Petros only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Petros was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Petros continues to be a precious jewel: 8 newborns were named Petros that year, ranking #7,630 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Petros, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Petros is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 78 Americans in total bear this name. And these 78 men are located in only three states: California, Illinois and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Petros and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Petros in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 303,955 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Petros present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Petros is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Petros and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Petros, you can simply say:
Pig
Elephant
Tiger
Rocket
Orange
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Petros
Petros
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
E
T
R
O
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
E
T
R
O
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Petros sounds like this:
