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Petros - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Petros

[ 2 syll. pe-tros, pet-r-os ] The boy name Petros is pronounced PEHTRowZ KEY. Petros' origin is Old Greek, and its use, Greek. Petros is a variant form of the English, German, and Scandinavian Peter.

Petros is rare as a baby boy name. It is not ranked within the top 1000. In 2008, within the family of boy names directly linked to Petros, the English, German, and Scandinavian Peter was the most regularly used.

Baby names that sound like Petros include the Welsh Padrig, the English, French, and Irish Patric, the English and French Patrice, the English, French, German, and Irish Patrick, the Czech, German, and Scandinavian Patrik, the Polish Patryk, the Lithuanian Petras, the Czech Petrík, the English Petroc, the Polish Pietrek, the Irish Padhraic, the Irish Padraic, the Irish Padraig, the Scottish Padruig, the Irish Patraic, the English Patricia, the Scottish Pàdraig, the Irish Pádraic, the Irish Pádraig, and the Irish Pátraic.

A famous person named Petros is Pete Sampras, Tennis Player, born Petros Sampras 12 August 1971.

KEY: English pronunciation for Petros: P as in "pee (P.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; Z as in "zee (Z.IY)"


 
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