Given name & surname
Petrina
Petrina is a feminine given name. It is used in Faroese and Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Petrina isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Petrina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,107
- 0 boys · 2,107 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 99 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 99 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,721 as a first name in 2020; 338 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Petrina’s family of names
In German usage, Petrina has a related form in Petra. In English usage, Petrina has a conventional equivalent in the German form Petra. In German usage, Petrina has a related form in Petrine.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Petrina
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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