Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Petula

#19,303 most common girls' name of all time · #31,602 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1965–1977

Rank among girls
#19,303
Rank overall
#31,602 of 105,966
First appeared
1965
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
179
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1968 #1,939
Best rank
#1,939 1968
Girls Boys peak 39/yr

Petula first appears in 1965. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1977 5 — 5 #10,356
1974 5 — 5 #9,451
1973 10 — 10 #5,464
1972 6 — 6 #7,885
1971 16 — 16 #3,923
1970 20 — 20 #3,302
1969 16 — 16 #3,606
1968 39 — 39 #1,939
1967 23 — 23 #2,631
1966 20 — 20 #2,838
1965 19 — 19 #2,937