Petrina — girls' name

What the Data Says About Petrina

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,107 babies named Petrina between 1900 and 2011, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Petrina currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 99 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Petrina performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 746 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Petrina shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 261 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Petrina in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Petrina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,107 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.