Pati
Pati was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 403 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pati by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pati mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Pati is “a diminutive of the female given name Patricia”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pati?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,874, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1959, the peak
Pati peaked in 1959, when 36 girls were given it, #1,874 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #13,874 | 2.7 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,198 | 3.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,415 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,073 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,549 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,662 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,319 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,339 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,586 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,128 | 8.6 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 25 | #2,455 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,628 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,874 | 17.8 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,434 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,399 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,020 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,521 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,281 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,574 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,501 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,244 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,183 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,695 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,300 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,744 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,379 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,075 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,436 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,191 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,911 | 4.1 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,760 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,774 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,711 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,815 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pati a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pati has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pati: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pati, and how old are they?
An estimated 305 Americans named Pati and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 65 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 569 people named Pati (521 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 335 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Pati rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 117,512 babies since 1880, Pati is the fourth most given (<1% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pati
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pati and names like it
- Compare Pati and PattyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPati peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pati since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Pati: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Pati.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pati alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.