How popular is “Petrona” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Petrona” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Petrona” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Petrona” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Petrona” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1913	5	0.000004397	5	100%
1987	5	0.000001387	5	100%
1990	5	0.000001265	5	100%
1991	6	0.00000154	6	100%
1993	5	0.000001326	5	100%
1995	7	0.000001911	7	100%
1997	5	0.000001379	5	100%
1998	10	0.000002719	10	100%
2000	7	0.000001852	7	100%
2001	9	0.000002404	9	100%
2002	6	0.000001605	6	100%
2003	9	0.000002367	9	100%
2004	7	0.000001832	7	100%
2005	12	0.000003121	12	100%
2006	7	0.000001769	7	100%
2007	9	0.000002251	9	100%
2008	7	0.000001781	7	100%
2009	8	0.000002094	8	100%
2010	10	0.000002706	10	100%
2011	11	0.000003007	11	100%
2012	11	0.000003008	11	100%
2013	8	0.000002194	8	100%
2014	5	0.000001349	5	100%
2015	12	0.000003242	12	100%
2016	13	0.000003543	13	100%
2017	16	0.000004474	16	100%
2018	12	0.000003413	12	100%
2019	19	0.000005474	19	100%
2020	26	0.000007783	26	100%
2021	24	0.000007084	24	100%
2022	16	0.000004729	16	100%
2023	21	0.000006342	21	100%
2024	45	0.00001352	45	100%

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