Petrea
Petrea was last recorded in 1978, when 5 babies were given it; 63 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Petrea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Petrea mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Petrea is “a female given name, a feminine form of Peter”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Petrea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,945, in 1978; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1942, the peak
Petrea peaked in 1942, when 10 girls were given it, #3,152 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | #10,945 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,152 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,777 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,313 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,275 | 3.5 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,402 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,312 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,407 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,847 | 2.9 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,152 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 5 | #4,917 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Petrea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Petrea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Petrea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Petrea, and how old are they?
An estimated 47 Americans named Petrea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 194 people named Petrea (189 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 52 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 14,689 babies since 1880, Petrea is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 161 babies recorded by SSA was a Petrea (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Petrea and names like it
- Compare Petrea and PetraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sPetrea peaked in 1942.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Petrea: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Petrea.
- Names starting with PMost given first.