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Petrina vs Pettus

American parents have registered 2,107 Petrinas since 1880, against 6 Pettuses. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Petrina against Pettus, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Petrina Pettus

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Petrina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2011. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1934, when Petrina had 7 and Pettus had 6.

Side by side

  Petrina Pettus
Total US births 2,1076
Most in one year 996
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,6001
Median age today 5391
Peak year 19711934
Best rank 1,164th girls3,277th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19001934
Girls / boys 2,107 / 00 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Pettuses alive today are over 91; half the Petrinas are over 53. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Petrina and Pettus.