Entry № 8081 · Bulgarian origin

Petya Petya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Bulgarian
Meaning
"Rock, steadfast"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "rock, steadfast".

Petya is a name of Bulgarian origin, meaning rock, steadfast.

Rock, steadfast — a Bulgarian name.

The name in its native script.

Petya
Transliteration
Petya
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Petya stands.

Petya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Petyas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Petya.

The number behind Petya.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Petya reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.