Petrina
Petrina was last recorded in 2011, when 9 babies were given it; 2,107 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,580 Americans named Petrina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 48 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Petrina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Petrina?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,926, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
99 babies in 1971, the peak
Petrina peaked in 1971, when 99 girls were given it, #1,169 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | #11,926 | 5.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,749 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,951 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,593 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,278 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,913 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,795 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,543 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,306 | 5.6 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,613 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 | #12,927 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,263 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,289 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,546 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,811 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,174 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,524 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,238 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,186 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,044 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,087 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,491 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,065 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,748 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,404 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,638 | 21.7 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,969 | 33.0 |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,685 | 41.1 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,796 | 37.2 |
| 1976 | 62 | #1,615 | 42.3 |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,361 | 54.2 |
| 1974 | 75 | #1,379 | 51.1 |
| 1973 | 92 | #1,183 | 63.1 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,273 | 53.2 |
| 1971 | 99 | #1,169 | 59.5 |
| 1970 | 85 | #1,283 | 48.6 |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,514 | 36.8 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,803 | 26.8 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,841 | 24.8 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,012 | 20.1 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,943 | 20.4 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,062 | 17.9 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,913 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,400 | 13.2 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,814 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,284 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,654 | 9.9 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,504 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,917 | 16.1 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,697 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,209 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,358 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,672 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,768 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,066 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,636 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,197 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,938 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,188 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,169 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,331 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,616 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,227 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,949 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,871 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,541 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,785 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,394 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,369 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,720 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,720 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,652 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,999 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,544 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,812 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,550 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,914 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,320 | 13.4 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,237 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,590 | 11.5 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,937 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,885 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,830 | 19.2 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,477 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 20 | #2,000 | 16.7 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,771 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,355 | 13.0 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,301 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,342 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,080 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,804 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,659 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,580 | 12.5 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,711 | 12.6 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,817 | 21.8 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,166 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Petrina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Petrina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Petrina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Petrina, and how old are they?
1,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 2,107 Americans ever recorded as Petrina. The median Petrina alive today is 54 years old; half are between 48 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 1,721 people named Petrina (1,721 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,668 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 48 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 315 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 929 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 215 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 74 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Petrina born?
The states with the most babies named Petrina are New York, California and Michigan, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 261 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 82 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 34 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 29 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 20 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Petrina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Petrina is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Petrina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,516 babies since 1880, Petrina is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 none of their 31 babies recorded by SSA was a Petrina (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Petrina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Petrina and names like it
- Compare Petrina and PetronaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sPetrina peaked in 1971.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Petrina since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Petrina.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Petrina alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with PMost given first.