Patricia
Patricia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 177 births. Its best rank was 3rd, in 1937–1943, 1946–1947, 1949–1952.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1770.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 195156,446 births
- Best rank
- #3first in 1937
- Since 1884
- 1,578,408people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,573,445 girls have been named Patricia in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 56,446 births — 3.1% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 177 births in 2024, against 56,446 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1951, and the 1950s alone account for 29%. It has spent 134 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 70 of them in the top 100 and 38 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 4,963 boys have also been given it, 0.31% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Patricia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 58 | |
| 1890s | 331 | |
| 1900s | 1,336 | |
| 1910s | 9,707 | |
| 1920s | 74,732 | |
| 1930s | 220,579 | |
| 1940s | 411,412 | |
| 1950s | 459,686 | |
| 1960s | 231,169 | |
| 1970s | 81,110 | |
| 1980s | 45,128 | |
| 1990s | 24,118 | |
| 2000s | 9,319 | |
| 2010s | 3,730 | |
| 2020s | 1,030 |
In 1951, its biggest year
Patricia was the 3rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1951 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Barbara. See all of 1951.
Names that rose and fell with Patricia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janetpeak 1954
- Deloisepeak 1953
- Georgiannepeak 1943
- Georgannpeak 1953
- Jopeak 1954
- Marileepeak 1947
- Rosannpeak 1952
- Delorisepeak 1948
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.