Petar
- #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 1968 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 641since 1963
Petar over time
Rank among boys' names. Petar has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
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| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #2,109 | 15 |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Petar! It came in at #3,646, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1966, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Petar is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
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- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#1,023 · 1 in 7,079
Best ever in a state: #864 in Illinois, 1977.
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| Illinois | #1,023 | 7 | 1 in 7,079 |
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See more about Petar
- 56 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #6,143)
- 1,445 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #6,143)
- 854 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #6,143)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1968 at #2,109 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1969, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 86,304 boys born in 2020 were named Petar (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,109 in 1968, was only 1 in 115,865 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.3% of all boys named Petar (143) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 32 | #2,109 (1968) | #3,430 |
| 1970s | 70 | #3,070 (1978) | #4,089 |
| 1980s | 75 | #3,401 (1985) | #4,462 |
| 1990s | 106 | #3,678 (1996) | #5,454 |
| 2000s | 143 | #4,370 (2006) | #5,554 |
| 2010s | 126 | #5,289 (2015) | #6,760 |
| 2020s | 89 | #4,698 (2020) | #6,052 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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