Petrona

#4,526 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Petronius

Petrona has been given to 409 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #4,526 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Petrona, 2025

1 in 107,000

Petrona over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Petrona: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Petronius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Petrona means

Petrona is a feminine form of Petronius.

Origin, language, and formation

Petrona is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Petronius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Petrona is pronounced /peˈtɾona/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 409 girls were recorded with the name Petrona between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,495 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,974 in 2020 to #4,526 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,351 in 2015 to #4,526 in 2025.

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 Petrona?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 107,000; 31 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 51,800; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #4,526; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 74,127 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Petrona 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 2025 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Petrona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Petronas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Petrona was born before 2017 — so the typical Petrona is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 39.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 404; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (163).

Is Petrona 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: −1,031; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +448; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +4,825; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 2.58×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 68.9%; Peak was 2024 (45)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,495; 2024

Spellings of Petrona

Petrona is not the most common spelling — Petra is, with 62.1% against Petrona's 1.7%.

Petra62.1%14,559
Verona18.4%4,314
Petrina9.0%2,107
Patrina8.8%2,063
Petrona1.7%409

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 Petrona is used

Across 1910–2025, Petrona was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 762,303 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Alabama1 in 100,000
2California1 in —
3Florida1 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. Petrona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Petrona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #4,526
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 448
Best rank ever: #3,495; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 45 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 409
Count in 2025: 31

Names similar to Petrona

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

Daviona Daytona Siyona Aviona Halona Petrice Winnona Alyona Lashona Raymona Theona Breyona Cleona Siona Petula Melona Adriona Petrina Mariona Shavona Lillyona Anona Vernona Aariona

Sibling names for Petrona

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

For a sister

Leonor Karleigh Keren Kendyl Anabel Adelle Annabell Hayleigh

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Henri Gavyn

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