Petunia
Petunia is a girl name of English origin, meaning The trumpet-shaped flower.
What Petunia means
The trumpet-shaped flower.
Petunia sits at 7 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 4 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Petunia comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Petunia is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Petunia?
Petunia is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Petunia is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Petunia
We group Petunia under flowers and growing things and the natural world — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Petunia
These share Petunia's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Poppy — The bright red poppy flower.
- Primrose — First rose; first flower of spring.
- Bryony — To sprout; a climbing vine.
- Hadley — Field of heather.
- Heather — The flowering heath shrub.
- Marigold — The golden marigold flower.
- May — The hawthorn blossom; the fifth month.
- Meadow — A field of wildflowers.
- Wisteria — The cascading purple vine.
- Briar — A wild, thorny rose bush.