Petrona is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Petrina, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Petrona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,495 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,495 in 2024; #4,527 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Petrona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,527 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #3,495.
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Petrona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,495 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 45 (2024).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Petrona, making it the 4,527th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,032 places from #3,495 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 45 girls named Petrona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,495, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 45. For comparison, it was #9,356 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Petrona in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 409 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 163 babies named Petrona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 223 US girls were named Petrona; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Petrina (2,107 babies since 1880).
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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Petrona in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,527 | — | — |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,495 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,904 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,216 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,368 | — | — |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,976 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,363 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,028 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,356 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,760 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,356 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,564 | — | — |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,885 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,259 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,233 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,058 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,393 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,013 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,415 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,755 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,314 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,836 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,108 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,945 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,796 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,808 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,105 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,496 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,436 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,130 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,657 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,587 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,679 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,596 | — | — |
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).