Patrica
Patrica was last recorded in 2009, when 6 babies were given it; 9,157 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,640 Americans named Patrica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 57 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Patrica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Patrica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,758, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
307 babies in 1962, the peak
Patrica peaked in 1962, when 307 babies were given it (302 girls, #569 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #16,758 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,001 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,409 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,601 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,472 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,587 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,324 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,629 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,083 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 10 | #9,096 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,806 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,644 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,875 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,966 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,910 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,837 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,601 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,082 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,642 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,015 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,011 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,247 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,840 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,174 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 58 | #1,831 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,243 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 53 | #2,003 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,174 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,826 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,531 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 65 | #1,631 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 89 | #1,258 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 88 | #1,274 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 117 | #1,029 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 134 | #926 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 128 | #954 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 166 | #833 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 164 | #837 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 161 | #813 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 170 | #766 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 218 | #649 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 250 | #598 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 250 | #616 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 295 | #574 | 0.16 |
| 1963 | 271 | #610 | 0.14 |
| 1962 | 302 | #569 | 0.15 |
| 1961 | 270 | #622 | 0.13 |
| 1960 | 270 | #609 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 259 | #619 | 0.13 |
| 1958 | 255 | #619 | 0.13 |
| 1957 | 283 | #574 | 0.14 |
| 1956 | 264 | #579 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 227 | #615 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 237 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 202 | #626 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 222 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1951 | 228 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1950 | 226 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1949 | 166 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 155 | #671 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 168 | #642 | 0.09 |
| 1946 | 154 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1945 | 122 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 110 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 130 | #666 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 114 | #700 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 127 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 93 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 120 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1938 | 97 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1937 | 69 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 80 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 58 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 68 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 69 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 55 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 57 | #925 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 58 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 45 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,265 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 54 | #1,052 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 45 | #1,145 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,256 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,454 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,855 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,654 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,678 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,518 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,154 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,990 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,996 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,327 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,782 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Patrica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Patrica has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 98 years of records.
Girls and boys named Patrica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Patrica, and how old are they?
6,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 73% of the 9,157 Americans ever recorded as Patrica. The median Patrica alive today is 64 years old; half are between 57 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 18,427 people named Patrica (18,349 women and girls, 78 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 532 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,520 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 471 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 119 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Patrica born?
The states with the most babies named Patrica are California, New York and Ohio, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 517 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 508 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 475 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 434 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 346 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 304 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 301 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 266 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 259 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 226 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Patrica is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Patrica is most over-represented in Florida: since 1911 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Patrica with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,623,976 babies since 1880, Patrica is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 178 babies recorded by SSA was a Patrica (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Patrica
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 Patrica and names like it
- Compare Patrica and PatriciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sPatrica peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Patrica since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Patrica.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Patrica alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.