Petrina
Petrina is a feminine given name.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Petrina
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Petrina is a feminine given name.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Petrina
The earliest SSA record of Petrina as a baby girl name dates back to 1900, when 5 babies received it. 1971 was its biggest year on record, with 99 newborns named Petrina — #1,164 in the national rankings. About 35% of every Petrina on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Petrina last appeared in the published SSA data in 2011, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 2K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Petrina
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Petrina. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Petrina
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About the name Petrina
Petrina is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1900 and has accumulated 2K births in the dataset. Petrina's peak popularity came in 1971 when it ranked #1,164. Use the chart and map above to compare Petrina's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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