Petrine
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Petrine is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, a feminine form of Peter.
- DKDenmark1 in 27K◐
- SESweden1 in 120K
- NLNetherlands1 in 494K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈382 ●
- Sources
- 20 ●
- 1 in 27K ◐
across 5 countries
113 records
Reference-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, a feminine form of Peter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 218 | — | 1 in 27K | 218 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 85△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 120K | 85 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 43 | — | 1 in 4.9M | 192 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 35 | — | 1 in 494K | 35 | — | — |
| FR France | 34 | 56 rec. | — | — | Petrine | 20 |
| US United States | 23 | 45 rec. | — | listed | Petrine | 14 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | — | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 0 rec. | — | 288 | — | 3 |
| GL Greenland | — | — | — | 86 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | — | — | 20 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 218 people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 27K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1K31%
- Danish1K31%
- Portuguese33410%
- Norwegian Bokmål2889%
- Norwegian1384%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,030 | 31% |
| Danish | 1,020 | 31% |
| Portuguese | 334 | 10% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 288 | 9% |
| Norwegian | 138 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Petrine is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Of or pertaining to people named Peter, particularly Saint Peter or Peter the Great.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Pētera diena - 29. jūnijs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 10 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2020 | 10 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 21 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Petrine Olsenb. 1826NONorwegian woman
- Petrine Fredstrupb. 1827DKDanish ballet dancer
- Petrine Daugaardb. 1848Inn and hotel owner
- Nanna Thraneb. 1854NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian author (1854-1948)
- Petrine Sonneb. 1870DKDanish actress (1870–1946)
- Petrine Archer-Strawb. 1956GBBritish artist and art historian and curator
- Petrine Olgeirdottirb. 1994NONorwegian snowboarder
- Petrine WellendorphDKresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 18 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 288 | #3,663 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 218 | #963 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 192 | #37,992 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2012 | 97 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2011 | 97 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2014 | 95 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2015 | 93 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2013 | 93 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2018 | 92 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2016 | 92 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2017 | 91 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2019 | 87 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 50 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Petrine?
- We estimate roughly 382 people bear Petrine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Petrine have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 218 people bear Petrine in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Petrine most common?
- Petrine is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Petrine a male or female name?
- Petrine is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Petrine mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, a feminine form of Peter
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Petrine”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.