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Petrina

Girls' name

Stone, rock, through Petrine

Petrina has been given to 2,107 babies in the U.S. since 1900. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Petrina, 2011

1 in 406,000

Petrina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Petrina: meaning, origin, and history

Stone, rock, through Petrine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Petrina means

Petrina belongs to the name family reached through Petrina → Petrine → Peter. Its meaning is “stone, rock”.

Origin, language, and formation

Petrina is used in Faroese and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Petrine and Peter.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,107 girls were recorded with the name Petrina between 1900 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,169 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Petrina?

Petrina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 406,000
9 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 195,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
281,722 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Petrina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 281,722 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Petrina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Petrinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Petrina was born before 1970 — so the typical Petrina is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,635
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (746).

Is Petrina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (99)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,169
1971

Spellings of Petrina

Petrina is not the most common spelling — Katrina is, with 52.4% against Petrina's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Petrina is used

Across 1910–2025, Petrina was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 182,014 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Petrina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Petrina around the world

Where Petrina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    1968–1990
    #517
    in 1990
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #2,433
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1944–1988
    #459
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Petrina

People whose public names include Petrina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Petrina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Petrina. Linked forms have their own page here.

PetronaPetrinePetriina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Petrina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,169
1971
Peak year
1971
99 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
2,107
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Petrina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

PetinaAdalinaEvalinaAvelinaYasminaDelainaEnedinaDespinaSantinaPetronaCarminaMelainaCarlinaMarlinaJasminaDelfinaHelainaMedinaDelinaMalainaFaustinaLorinaNicolinaLovina

Names with a curve like Petrina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Petrina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DioneDevonaKareyConsuelaTwanaCherilynCristieChristelTobiCristiShonaCandida

Sibling names for Petrina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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