Petra
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#1,372
up +118 places
2025 births
161
up +14 births
All-time births
14,559
1% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1927
- 197 births
- Best rank
- #435
- in 1894
- First recorded
- 1881
- #574 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1963
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 145 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1927197#499Peak
- 1922189#507
- 1925189#512
- 1924187#525
- 1929187#492
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #435 in 1894 · peak births 197 in 1927
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
67 boys · 14,559 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Petra has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.