Petronille
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Petronilla, a feminine diminutive of Latin Petronius, later associated with St Peter and the given name Peter; first attested Petronitla Ric 1 DC (L)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/petʁɔnij/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petronille is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 231K(inferred from the name graph)
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 17K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 82K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Petronilla, a feminine diminutive of Latin Petronius, later associated with St Peter and the given name Peter; first attested Petronitla Ric 1 DC (L)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Petronille is read(measured from records)
Petronille is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French87%
Autre forme féminine de Pierre; du latin Petrus, « pierre ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English6.5%
from Petronilla, a feminine diminutive of Latin Petronius, later associated with St Peter and the given name Peter; first attested Petronitla Ric 1 DC (L)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petronille 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 182K | 1 | Petronille | 5 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Petronille | 4 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #154 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Petronille | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 231K | 1.1K | Petronille | 97 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 380K | — | Petronille | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 18 | 1 in 960K | 18 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Petronille is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian, a female given name from Latin, variant of Pernille / Petronella
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2010 | 1.1K | #1,948 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1940 | 20 | #438 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 18 | #15,724 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Petronille mean, and where does it come from?
- from Petronilla, a feminine diminutive of Latin Petronius, later associated with St Peter and the given name Peter; first attested Petronitla Ric 1 DC (L) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Petronille?
- A machine transcription gives /petʁɔnij/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Petronille a male or female name?
- Petronille 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.
- In which country does Petronille have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 559 people named Petronille in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petronille.
- How common is the name Petronille?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 18 people named Petronille, about 1 in 960 thousand residents.
- How common is Petronille compared with other names?
- In Congo - Brazzaville, Petronille is the 154th most common given name of 363 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Petronille?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petronilleThe 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, “Petronille” — the 154th most common given name in Congo - Brazzaville. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.