Petrona

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Petrona is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Nicaragua it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua1 in 605◐
  • PYParaguay1 in 2.1K
  • HNHonduras1 in 2.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈5.4K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
100 ●

255K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 6.2K ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

PetronaLatin · Spanish●316K records
ПетронаCyrillic · Russian●308 records

Locally spelled Петрона in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Petrona is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#422203,738152K rec.—3Petrona37
MX Mexico#70134,10634K rec.—103Petrona52
NI Nicaragua#2924,86525K rec.——Petrona15
PY Paraguay#14815,1307.6K rec.——Petrona18
PE Peru—8,4487.1K rec.——Petrona24
SV El Salvador#3037,2557K rec.——Petrona10
UY Uruguay#2016,6785.6K rec.—1Petrona12
HN Honduras#1396,6666.6K rec.——Petrona9
EC Ecuador—2,711△16 rec.1 in 6.2K2.7KPetrona15
US United States—2,0553.7K rec.1 in 162K2.1KPetrona100
RU Russia—292106 rec.——Петрона43
BR Brazil—216236 rec.1 in 980K284Petrona25

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish316K92%
  • English11K3%
  • Portuguese4.7K1%
  • 6931%
  • Swahili3181%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish315,75792%
English10,9773%
Portuguese4,6801%
6931%
Swahili3181%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Petrona is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan given name324 records spelled Petrona3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, France, Paraguay

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Pétrona

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02040608019001950200070 · 1974

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Petrona in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1900–2021
Yearrecords
19003
19023
19037
19048
19059
19066
19076
190811
19099
191015
191114
191215
191317
191422
191530
191624
191718
191824
191922
192030
192118
192228
192323
192422
192537
192646
192736
192846
192939
193047
193139
193237
193345
193439
193539
193641
193730
193833
193937
194033
194134
194232
194328
194441
194537
194644
194751
194849
194941
195045
195136
195242
195342
195430
195540
195638
195741
195828
195939
196032
196148
196239
196337
196436
196547
196667
196747
196844
196940
197037
197133
197227
197333
197470
197520
197620
197722
197832
197923
198034
198124
198221
198322
198416
198516
198611
198712
198813
198911
19907
19911
19922
19935
19946
19954
19962
19972
19981
19992
20001
20052
20062
20074
20082
20094
20108
20112
20151
20171
20211

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 110 years between 1900–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

175018001850190019502000Petrona Bernardina Cordero, b. 1778Petrona Rosende, b. 1787Petrona Álvarez de Carrera, b. 1817Petrona Eyle, b. 1866Petrona Viera Garino, b. 1895Petrona Carrizo de Gandulfo, b. 1898Petrona Martínez, b. 1939Martha Jiménez, b. 1948Petrona Mejía, b. 1973

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 36 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Petrona
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—2.7K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.7K#513
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.1K#7,417
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1948288—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)1948288—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—284#11,041
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—264#21,314
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1944229—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)1944228—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1943217—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)1943217—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022216—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 475 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Petrona?
We estimate roughly 5.4 thousand people bear Petrona (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Petrona have the most bearers?
Petrona is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled petrona.
How common is Petrona compared with other names?
In Argentina, Petrona is the 422nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Petrona a male or female name?
Petrona 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Petrona” — the 422nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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