Petronel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern feminine form of Peter; a stone or rock, one of Christ's apostles
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/petronel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petronel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 118K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 275K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Modern feminine form of Peter; a stone or rock, one of Christ's apostles.
Sources 1
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Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petronel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Petronel | 13 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Petronel | 10 |
| IT Italy | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 374K | listed | Petronel | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 147 | 1 in 118K | 121 | Petronel | 6 |
| ES Spain | 48 | 1 in 1M | 48 | Petronel | 3 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Petronel 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, A short but large-caliber, heavy 16th- and 17th-century firearm that used a matchlock or wheellock mechanism, intermediate between the arquebuse and pistol.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
English: from Latin Petronilla , originally a feminine diminutive of the Roman family name Petr nius (of uncertain derivation). The name Petronilla was borne by a 1st-century martyr, and early in the Christian era came to be connected with PETER , so that in many legends surrounding her she is described as a companion or even the daughter of St Peter. Variant (Latinate): Petronella .
as a word
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 121 | #4,937 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 48 | #28,800 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 46 | #13,812 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 26 | #9,970 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 9 | #30,513 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Petronel mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern feminine form of Peter; a stone or rock, one of Christ's apostles. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Petronel?
- A machine transcription gives /petronel/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- Is Petronel a male or female name?
- Petronel is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Petronel?
- In the etymology graph, Petronila, Nela and Petronella are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Petronel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Petronel in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petronel.
- How common is the name Petronel?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 147 people named Petronel, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petronelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Petronel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.