Petrona
Petrona was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,526 among girls’ names; 409 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Petrona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Petrona mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Petrona is “a female given name”
/peˈtɾona/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Petrona?
#4,526 among girls’ names, 2025
Petrona rose from #9,351 in 2015 to #4,526 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 19.3 per million.
45 babies in 2024, the peak
Petrona peaked in 2024, when 45 girls were given it, #3,495 among girls’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,526 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,495 | 27.8 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,899 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,211 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,364 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,974 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,359 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,023 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,352 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,757 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,351 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,558 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,880 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,254 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,229 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,052 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,387 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,007 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,410 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,750 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,309 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,830 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,102 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,939 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,789 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,800 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,098 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,490 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,431 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,124 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,650 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,580 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,673 | 2.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,594 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Petrona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Petrona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Petrona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Petrona, and how old are they?
An estimated 401 Americans named Petrona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,061 people named Petrona (2,055 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 245 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.4 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 2,516 babies since 1880, Petrona is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 31 babies (100%), the most given that year.
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 Petrona
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.
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