Petronia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Petronia has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1984, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Petronia, 1984
1 in 349,000
Petronia over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Petronia?
Petronia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1984
- 1 in 349,000
- 10 of 3,488,451 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 168,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1984
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 241,802 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Petronia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1984 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 241,802 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Petronia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Petronias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Petronia was born before 1939 — so the typical Petronia is around 86 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 37.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 21
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (16).
Is Petronia 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
- —
- 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 1984 (10)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Petronia
Petronia is not the most common spelling — Petrina is, with 98.0% against Petronia's 2.0%.
- Petrina98.0%2,107
- Petronia2.0%43
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.
Petronia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Petronia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Petronia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.