Petunia

Girls' name

English word name: petunia

Petunia has been given to 32 babies in the U.S. since 2014. 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 2024, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Petunia, 2024

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Petunia: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: petunia

English

What Petunia means

Petunia takes the English word petunia into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Petunia is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 32 girls were recorded with the name Petunia between 2014 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,901 in 2024.

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.

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How common is Petunia?

Petunia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 418,000; 8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 203,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 289,633 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Petunia 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Petunia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Petunias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Petunia was born before 2021 — so the typical Petunia is around 4 today.

Median birth year: 2021; About 4 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 84.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 32; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 84.4% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Petunia 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 2024 (8)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #11,901; 2024

Petunia 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: #11,901; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 8 that year
First recorded: 2014
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 32
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Petunia

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

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Sibling names for Petunia

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

Noah Alianna Xochitl Leonor Elina Malka Eleni Emerie

For a brother

Jeremias Bjorn Kylo Evans Shimon Rio Rome Shlomo

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