Petronia

girls:

43 births since 1919

#5673 (1st percentile)

overall:

43 births since 1919

#7696 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Petronia is the #7,696 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 43 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 0.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,673 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 1919.

Petronia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (first recorded for girls in 1919). Birth data for Petronia is available in 7 out of the 66 years between 1919 and 1984. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Petronia reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #783) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1984.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Petronia".

1919 1984 19191984

Key Statistics

Total Births
43
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1984
First Recorded
1919
Peak Percentile
0.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#783
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Petronia

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Petronia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 64.4% confident that Petronia is pronounced as peh-TROH-nee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PEH-TROH-nee-uh, at 11.1% confidence, with 4 syllables.

peh-TROH-nee-uh (4 syllables)
Verified
64.4% confidence
P EH0 T R OW1 N IY0 AH0
PEH-TROH-nee-uh (4 syllables)
11.1% confidence
P EH1 T R OW1 N IY0 AH0
puh-TROH-nee-uh (4 syllables)
8.9% confidence
P AH0 T R OW1 N IY0 AH0
PEH-troh-nee-uh (4 syllables)
8.9% confidence
P EH1 T R OW0 N IY0 AH0
peh-TROH-nyuh (3 syllables)
6.7% confidence
P EH0 T R OW1 N Y AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like P EH0 T R OW1 N IY0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

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