Perrine

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Girl · Greek, through French

Perrine

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Meaning

French feminine diminutive of Pierre, from Greek petros 'stone'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Recorded among the early Acadian settler families.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

24 babies given this name since 1919
At its height in 1919, about 1 in 188,400 girls
Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

The family of the name

English	Petronilla

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Where this comes from

Colonial records of the Americas
The Paris tax rolls of the 1290s
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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