Petra
Petra is a girl name of Slavic origin, meaning Rock; stone.
What Petra means
Rock; stone.
Petra sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Petra comes from
Slavic names are commonly built from two clear elements — peace, glory, world, love — combined into a compound whose meaning reads almost as a wish.
Petra is recorded as Slavic in origin. Browse other Slavic names.
How popular is Petra?
Petra is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Petra is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Petra
We group Petra under strength. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Strong
Names like Petra
These share Petra's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Aleksandra — Defender of mankind.
- Borys — Wolf; a fighter.
- Matilda — Mighty in battle.
- Matilde — Mighty in battle.
- Pilar — Pillar of strength; Our Lady of the Pillar.
- Sigrid — Beautiful victory.
- Valentina — Strong, healthy, brave.
- Berenice — Bringer of victory.
- Bridget — Strength; the exalted one.
- Briella — God is my strength.
- Carolina — Free; strong woman.
- Caroline — Free woman; strong.