Petricia
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/petɾiθja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Petricia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 160Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NANamibia≈1 in 190K
- DKDenmark1 in 326K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 157K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Petricia
- Spanish:/petɾiθja/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Indonesian:/pətrit͡ʃia/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Petricia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Petricia | 12 |
| IN India | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Petricia | 17 |
| US United States | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Petricia | 78 |
| BR Brazil | 84 | 1 in 2.5M | 129 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Petricia | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 18 | 1 in 326K | 18 | — | — |
| NA Namibia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 186K | 1 | — | 1 |
| MD Moldova | 6 | 1 in 561K | 6 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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).
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Petricia?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /petɾiθja/; in Indonesian /pətrit͡ʃia/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Petricia a male or female name?
- Petricia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE).
- Which countries have the most people named Petricia?
- Mondonomo estimates about 409 people named Petricia in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petricia. After it come India, United States, Brazil and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Petricia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 84 people named Petricia in 2022, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Petricia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petriciaThe 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, “Petricia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.