Patrica — girls' name

What the Data Says About Patrica

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,146 babies named Patrica between 1911 and 2009, spanning 99 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Patrica currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 302 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Patrica performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 2,456 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Patrica shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 517 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Patrica in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Patrica in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,146 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.