Patricia — #1298 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Patricia

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,573,445 babies named Patricia between 1884 and 2024, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Patricia currently holds the #1298 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1951, when 56,446 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Patricia performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 459,686 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Patricia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 163,590 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Patricia in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Patricia 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 1,573,445 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.