girls:
14.2k births since 1881
#1289 (77th percentile)
boys:
67 births since 1918
#4519 (1st percentile)
overall:
14.3k births since 1881
#2191 (72nd percentile)
The name Petra is the #2,191 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,316 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 71.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,289 (77.5% percentile) for all time with 14,249 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,519 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 1918.
Petra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1918 for boys).
The name Petra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Petra reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 30.2% percentile (ranked #421) with 159 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 178 births per million (ranked 11.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Petra ranks #804 for girls (15.1% percentile) with 85 births per million, which is 47.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Petra reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #536) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Petra".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Petra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Petra is pronounced as PEH-truh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PEE-truh, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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