Patrice
Patrice is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#16,666 among girls’ names and #11,649 among boys’, #15,829 among all names counting both); 34,861 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 30,300 Americans named Patrice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 43 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Patrice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Patrice mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Patrice is “a female given name from Latin.”
20th century variant of Patricia, probably borrowed from the French male given name Patrice.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Patrice?
#16,666 among girls’ names, 2025
Patrice fell from #5,983 in 2015 to #16,666 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 3.1 per million.
1,516 babies in 1958, the peak
Patrice peaked in 1958, when 1,516 babies were given it (1,510 girls, #212 among girls’ names). The 11 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are under 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,666 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,076 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,960 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,240 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,821 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,873 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,627 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,667 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,466 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,356 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,983 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,645 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,992 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,675 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,498 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,705 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,663 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,527 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,779 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,009 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,720 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,766 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,078 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,132 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,788 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,857 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,555 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,489 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 179 | #1,063 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 156 | #1,169 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 201 | #939 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 248 | #810 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 296 | #721 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 351 | #646 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 424 | #552 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 521 | #471 | 0.27 |
| 1989 | 504 | #471 | 0.27 |
| 1988 | 480 | #475 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 588 | #391 | 0.34 |
| 1986 | 527 | #416 | 0.31 |
| 1985 | 605 | #375 | 0.35 |
| 1984 | 620 | #369 | 0.37 |
| 1983 | 683 | #338 | 0.41 |
| 1982 | 749 | #324 | 0.44 |
| 1981 | 625 | #373 | 0.37 |
| 1980 | 639 | #367 | 0.38 |
| 1979 | 469 | #440 | 0.29 |
| 1978 | 374 | #505 | 0.24 |
| 1977 | 363 | #513 | 0.24 |
| 1976 | 380 | #483 | 0.26 |
| 1975 | 376 | #490 | 0.26 |
| 1974 | 446 | #436 | 0.30 |
| 1973 | 484 | #410 | 0.33 |
| 1972 | 642 | #344 | 0.42 |
| 1971 | 873 | #309 | 0.52 |
| 1970 | 914 | #309 | 0.52 |
| 1969 | 541 | #408 | 0.32 |
| 1968 | 620 | #360 | 0.38 |
| 1967 | 641 | #354 | 0.39 |
| 1966 | 762 | #321 | 0.45 |
| 1965 | 706 | #344 | 0.40 |
| 1964 | 831 | #331 | 0.44 |
| 1963 | 776 | #339 | 0.40 |
| 1962 | 792 | #333 | 0.40 |
| 1961 | 884 | #309 | 0.44 |
| 1960 | 1,034 | #284 | 0.51 |
| 1959 | 1,102 | #265 | 0.54 |
| 1958 | 1,510 | #212 | 0.75 |
| 1957 | 910 | #302 | 0.45 |
| 1956 | 911 | #295 | 0.45 |
| 1955 | 1,014 | #266 | 0.52 |
| 1954 | 1,165 | #236 | 0.60 |
| 1953 | 1,119 | #241 | 0.59 |
| 1952 | 1,085 | #240 | 0.59 |
| 1951 | 952 | #248 | 0.53 |
| 1950 | 512 | #346 | 0.30 |
| 1949 | 173 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 138 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 178 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1946 | 193 | #579 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 103 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 54 | #1,066 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,358 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,183 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,742 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,541 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,536 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,705 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,479 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,086 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,190 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,401 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,264 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,319 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,995 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,783 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,306 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,617 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,354 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,054 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,629 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,288 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,708 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,107 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Patrice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 34,861 Americans recorded as Patrice, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Patrice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Patrice, and how old are they?
30,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 34,861 Americans ever recorded as Patrice. The median Patrice alive today is 57 years old; half are between 43 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 31,301 people named Patrice (29,987 women and girls, 1,314 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31,557 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 194 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12,300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,820 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 206 |
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 Patrice born?
The states with the most babies named Patrice are New York, California and Illinois, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 3,493 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 2,953 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 2,374 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,973 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 1,702 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 1,435 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 1,301 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 1,268 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 1,213 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 1,205 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Patrice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Patrice is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1914 it was given 3.0 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 Patrice 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 1,623,435 babies since 1880, Patrice is the second most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 178 babies (6.2%), again the second most given.
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 Patrice
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 Patrice and names like it
- Compare Patrice and PatriciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPatrice peaked in 1958.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Patrice since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Patrice: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Patrice.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Patrice alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.