Meaning not yet researched.
Petra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 161 in 2025. Its best rank was #435 in 1894.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #435 in 1894; #1,372 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Petra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,372 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1894, at #435.
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Petra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 161 girls in 2025. Peak: #435 in 1894 · most girls in one year: 197 (1927).
In 2025, 161 US girls were named Petra, making it the 1,372nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 118 places from #1,490 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 147 girls named Petra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #435, reached in 1894. The most girls given the name in a single year was 197, in 1927. For comparison, it was #1,351 in 2015 and #760 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Petra in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 10 babies. In all, 14,626 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,822 babies named Petra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,562 US girls were named Petra; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 175. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,983 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Petra ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #610 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Pietra are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, Slovene and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Pietra (182).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Petra in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 6 | #610 | #660 |
| Washington | 9 | #721 | #637 |
| Colorado | 6 | #877 | — |
| New York | 15 | #1,018 | #1,463 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,044 | #1,245 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,209 | #1,410 |
| California | 21 | #1,217 | #947 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,354 | #1,365 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,620 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,643 | #1,641 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,348 | #1,897 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 161 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 2024 | 147 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 2023 | 149 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 2022 | 140 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 2021 | 151 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 2020 | 175 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 2019 | 172 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 2018 | 144 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 2017 | 165 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 2016 | 158 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 2015 | 176 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 2014 | 145 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 2012 | 122 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 2011 | 118 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 2010 | 99 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 2009 | 135 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 2005 | 122 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 1995 | 81 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,830 | 5 | #9,236 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1989 | 73 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1987 | 111 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1986 | 75 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1985 | 91 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1984 | 89 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1983 | 96 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 1981 | 86 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1980 | 116 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1979 | 101 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1978 | 120 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1977 | 101 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1976 | 123 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1975 | 101 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1974 | 120 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1973 | 122 | #978 | 5 | #5,680 |
| 1972 | 117 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1971 | 130 | #978 | — | — |
| 1970 | 130 | #973 | — | — |
| 1969 | 113 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1968 | 134 | #892 | — | — |
| 1967 | 124 | #922 | — | — |
| 1966 | 130 | #884 | — | — |
| 1965 | 156 | #791 | — | — |
| 1964 | 138 | #886 | — | — |
| 1963 | 113 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1962 | 116 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1961 | 99 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1960 | 137 | #902 | — | — |
| 1959 | 106 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1958 | 92 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1957 | 109 | #999 | — | — |
| 1956 | 118 | #932 | — | — |
| 1955 | 100 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1954 | 103 | #955 | — | — |
| 1953 | 115 | #880 | — | — |
| 1952 | 88 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1951 | 98 | #936 | — | — |
| 1950 | 130 | #760 | — | — |
| 1949 | 113 | #832 | — | — |
| 1948 | 131 | #739 | 5 | #4,059 |
| 1947 | 115 | #819 | — | — |
| 1946 | 116 | #765 | — | — |
| 1945 | 93 | #777 | — | — |
| 1944 | 103 | #756 | — | — |
| 1943 | 103 | #766 | — | — |
| 1942 | 97 | #771 | — | — |
| 1941 | 81 | #806 | — | — |
| 1940 | 108 | #666 | — | — |
| 1939 | 106 | #663 | — | — |
| 1938 | 117 | #637 | — | — |
| 1937 | 121 | #612 | 6 | #3,434 |
| 1936 | 115 | #618 | — | — |
| 1935 | 106 | #633 | — | — |
| 1934 | 139 | #548 | — | — |
| 1933 | 120 | #591 | — | — |
| 1932 | 141 | #550 | — | — |
| 1931 | 168 | #498 | 5 | #4,197 |
| 1930 | 176 | #505 | 5 | #4,419 |
| 1929 | 187 | #492 | 5 | #4,409 |
| 1928 | 182 | #514 | 7 | #3,625 |
| 1927 | 197 | #499 | 8 | #3,377 |
| 1926 | 174 | #532 | — | — |
| 1925 | 189 | #512 | — | — |
| 1924 | 187 | #525 | 5 | #4,813 |
| 1923 | 168 | #558 | — | — |
| 1922 | 189 | #507 | — | — |
| 1921 | 166 | #552 | — | — |
| 1920 | 152 | #582 | 6 | #4,167 |
| 1919 | 145 | #580 | — | — |
| 1918 | 134 | #610 | 5 | #4,655 |
| 1917 | 123 | #619 | — | — |
| 1916 | 99 | #690 | — | — |
| 1915 | 120 | #597 | — | — |
| 1914 | 111 | #530 | — | — |
| 1913 | 85 | #557 | — | — |
| 1912 | 63 | #629 | — | — |
| 1911 | 62 | #534 | — | — |
| 1910 | 65 | #510 | — | — |
| 1909 | 50 | #539 | — | — |
| 1908 | 40 | #601 | — | — |
| 1907 | 51 | #506 | — | — |
| 1906 | 40 | #561 | — | — |
| 1905 | 43 | #526 | — | — |
| 1904 | 43 | #505 | — | — |
| 1903 | 26 | #663 | — | — |
| 1902 | 37 | #534 | — | — |
| 1901 | 37 | #505 | — | — |
| 1900 | 40 | #537 | — | — |
| 1899 | 22 | #675 | — | — |
| 1898 | 26 | #648 | — | — |
| 1897 | 24 | #640 | — | — |
| 1896 | 33 | #525 | — | — |
| 1895 | 27 | #589 | — | — |
| 1894 | 42 | #435 | — | — |
| 1893 | 23 | #611 | — | — |
| 1892 | 24 | #575 | — | — |
| 1891 | 18 | #639 | — | — |
| 1890 | 18 | #639 | — | — |
| 1889 | 24 | #528 | — | — |
| 1888 | 24 | #522 | — | — |
| 1887 | 17 | #556 | — | — |
| 1886 | 19 | #523 | — | — |
| 1885 | 15 | #571 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #781 | — | — |
| 1883 | 9 | #682 | — | — |
| 1882 | 9 | #667 | — | — |
| 1881 | 10 | #574 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).