2025 rank (girls)
#14,942
Babies named in 2025
5
Peak popularity
1888
2025 frequency
1 in 321,453 girls
Usually for
Girls
Trend
Rising since 2022
A 1880s favorite, climbing again.
Popularity of Petronila since 1888
Babies named Petronila per year in U.S. Social Security records. Raw births topped out in 2020, but relative to how few babies were recorded back then, Petronila's real moment was 1888.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Girls |
|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 |
| 1890s | 0 |
| 1900s | 0 |
| 1910s | 14 |
| 1920s | 0 |
| 1930s | 5 |
| 1940s | 0 |
| 1950s | 0 |
| 1960s | 0 |
| 1970s | 5 |
| 1980s | 0 |
| 1990s | 0 |
| 2000s | 0 |
| 2010s | 17 |
| 2020s | 23 |
