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Petre - Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Petre

[ 2 syll. pe-tre, pet-re ] The boy name Petre is pronounced as PEHTer †. Petre is mainly used in Romanian and its language of origin is Old Greek. Petre is a form of the English, German, and Scandinavian name Peter.

Petre is not popular as a baby boy name. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2008, among the family of boy names directly related to Petre, Peter was the most regularly used.

Baby names that sound like Petre include the Czech, Russian, and Slavic Petr, the Scandinavian Petter, the Irish Padhra, the Scottish Peadair, the Scandinavian Peder, the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Pedro, the Estonian Peeter, the Romanian and Slavic Petar, the English, German, and Scandinavian Peter, the Russian and Ukrainian Petro, the Romanian Petru, the Hungarian Péter, the Dutch Pieter, the Polish and Slavic Piotr, the English Potter, the Russian Pyatr, the Russian Pyotr, the name Padraigh, the Irish and Scottish Peadar, and the Welsh Pedr.

 



† English pronunciation for Petre: P as in "pee (P.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)"


 
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