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Petrina

Recorded 1900–2011 · United States

Petrina was most popular in 1971, when 99 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,911 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,107 people named Petrina.

Most popular in1971
Rank that year#1,911
Births that year99
Total since 18802,107
Given to100% girls
Alive today~1,000
Median age54

Petrina over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Petrina’s peak in 1971. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Petrina?

Petrina first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1900, which makes it about 125 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 96 of the 126 years since. It was last recorded in 2011.

How many people are named Petrina?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,107 American births named Petrina between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,608 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Petrina in 2025?

Petrina was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.

Is Petrina getting more or less popular?

Petrina is out of use. It averaged 9 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Petrina a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Petrina is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,107 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Petrina?

Roughly 1,608 Americans named Petrina are alive today — 76% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 54 years old, and half are between 48 and 61.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Petrina is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org