Given a percentile input, calculate the number of standard deviations from 0 using a normal distribution

I need to reverse engineer an old function.  Before I came into the picture my friend had a hard drive crash and lost the original documentation and source code, no backups, OH MY!  :

We only have a short description left:

Function: NormalCDF(Percentile), returns the number of standard deviations "Percentile" is from 0
using the standard normal distribution with mean 0 and standard deviation 1.

The name of the function seems misleading to me, At first I thought it referred to the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of a normal distribution.  But that doesn't seem to make sense from the description.

I'll use Mathematica to implement the new version of this.  It has an internal function to generate a Normal distribution with mean 0 and standard deviation 1:

    NormalDistribution[0, 1]

Maybe the cumulative distribution function has some equivalence to "the number of standard deviations "Percentile" is from 0..."

I can also plot a CDF of the normal distribution like this:

Plot[CDF[NormalDistribution[0, 1], x], {x, -4, 4}]

but I don't feel like this gets me on the right track.

Regardless of the name of the function I need to do this:

Given a percentile input, calculate the number of standard deviations from 0 using a normal distribution

Any ideas?