Is There a Petofi Coat of Arms?

Families named Petofi share a Hungarian surname with a long history.

Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “the son of Peter (rock)”. It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear.

Arms associated with the name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Petofi family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Get the complete Petofi report, with a museum-style coat of arms.