Petrunelia
Just 20 women in Poland carry it, a name most people will never meet in a lifetime. A Latin variant of Petronela, from a root meaning rock or stone.
Petrunelia Pronunciation
Petrunelia is pronounced pet-roo-NEL-yah (/pɛtruˈnɛlja/).
What Petrunelia means
Where Petrunelia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Petrunelia comes from Latin. The older shape is Petronilla, a diminutive of the Roman family name Petronius. From Petronilla grew Petronela, the variant a Polish reader will recognize, and Nela, the short form teachers reach for.
The sense of rock and stone came later. Early Christians tied the name to Peter, whose Greek and Latin roots, petros and petra, mean stone. That link handed Petrunelia its meaning of rock, though the Roman family name still sits underneath.
On 31 May the calendar marks imieniny for Petronela, and a girl entered as Nela might meet both forms on one urząd form. Saint Petronilla, an early Christian venerated in Rome, is the oldest bearer we can name with any confidence. Under every spelling stays petra: stone.
How many people are named Petrunelia
1 in 1127192 women in Poland is named Petrunelia. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10037 among female names.