Petrin Family History
Petrin Name Meaning
Altered form (also Pétrin) of French Patrin: probably a derivative of pâtre ‘shepherd’. Compare Patraw . French (also Pétrin): from pétrin ‘kneading-trough’ possibly used as a metonymic occupational name for a baker or as a nickname (the idiom être dans le petrin means ‘to be in a difficult situation’). French: from a pet form of Petre a regional variant of the personal name Pierre ‘Peter’. Slovenian: augmentative derivative of the personal name Peter .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022