Patrick
Patrick was given to 1,495 boys in 2025, #235 among boys’ names; 689,424 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 546,000 Americans named Patrick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 34 and 61.
Patrick is the #45 most common first name among living American men and boys, by this estimate.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Patrick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Patrick mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Patrick is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “patrician” (Patricius).
From Middle English Patrick, from Latin Patricius (“patrician”), the name of an early Irish saint. Doublet of Paddy.
/ˈpætɹɪk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Patrick?
#235 among boys’ names, 2025
Patrick fell from #165 in 2015 to #235 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.3 to 0.88 per 1,000.
14,750 babies in 1964, the peak
Patrick peaked in 1964, when 14,750 babies were given it (14,692 boys, #30 among boys’ names). The 1,495 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,495 | #235 | 0.88 |
| 2024 | 1,630 | #221 | 0.95 |
| 2023 | 1,601 | #224 | 0.94 |
| 2022 | 1,717 | #218 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 1,791 | #212 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 1,867 | #205 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 1,881 | #207 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 2,124 | #189 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 2,304 | #171 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 2,360 | #170 | 1.2 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,535 | #165 | 1.3 |
| 2014 | 2,680 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 2,598 | #154 | 1.4 |
| 2012 | 2,823 | #140 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 2,868 | #143 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 3,139 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 2009 | 3,250 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 2008 | 3,339 | #127 | 1.6 |
| 2007 | 3,736 | #116 | 1.8 |
| 2006 | 3,947 | #110 | 1.9 |
| 2005 | 4,044 | #108 | 2.0 |
| 2004 | 4,441 | #100 | 2.2 |
| 2003 | 4,789 | #91 | 2.4 |
| 2002 | 5,153 | #79 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 5,786 | #72 | 3.0 |
| 2000 | 6,297 | #68 | 3.2 |
| 1999 | 6,447 | #63 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6,734 | #57 | 3.5 |
| 1997 | 7,490 | #50 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 8,194 | #44 | 4.3 |
| 1995 | 8,674 | #43 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 9,337 | #42 | 4.8 |
| 1993 | 9,857 | #43 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 11,409 | #39 | 5.7 |
| 1991 | 12,412 | #35 | 6.1 |
| 1990 | 12,377 | #36 | 6.0 |
| 1989 | 11,987 | #38 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 11,400 | #42 | 6.0 |
| 1987 | 11,142 | #41 | 6.0 |
| 1986 | 11,410 | #39 | 6.2 |
| 1985 | 11,638 | #37 | 6.3 |
| 1984 | 11,524 | #36 | 6.4 |
| 1983 | 10,876 | #37 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 10,695 | #37 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 10,384 | #38 | 5.8 |
| 1980 | 10,352 | #38 | 5.8 |
| 1979 | 9,979 | #39 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 8,830 | #42 | 5.4 |
| 1977 | 8,305 | #40 | 5.1 |
| 1976 | 7,642 | #41 | 4.9 |
| 1975 | 8,053 | #39 | 5.2 |
| 1974 | 8,137 | #38 | 5.2 |
| 1973 | 8,480 | #37 | 5.4 |
| 1972 | 9,276 | #35 | 5.7 |
| 1971 | 10,808 | #35 | 6.1 |
| 1970 | 11,730 | #33 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 12,675 | #31 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 13,062 | #30 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 12,976 | #30 | 7.4 |
| 1966 | 12,405 | #31 | 7.0 |
| 1965 | 12,929 | #31 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 14,692 | #30 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 12,071 | #35 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 10,499 | #40 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 11,052 | #39 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 10,356 | #45 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 10,556 | #43 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 10,247 | #42 | 4.8 |
| 1957 | 10,353 | #41 | 4.8 |
| 1956 | 10,326 | #40 | 4.9 |
| 1955 | 9,869 | #41 | 4.8 |
| 1954 | 9,927 | #38 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 9,468 | #39 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 9,175 | #37 | 4.7 |
| 1951 | 8,751 | #39 | 4.6 |
| 1950 | 8,179 | #38 | 4.6 |
| 1949 | 8,075 | #39 | 4.6 |
| 1948 | 7,192 | #48 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 6,622 | #53 | 3.6 |
| 1946 | 5,305 | #59 | 3.3 |
| 1945 | 3,854 | #63 | 2.9 |
| 1944 | 3,881 | #64 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 3,848 | #69 | 2.7 |
| 1942 | 3,804 | #64 | 2.8 |
| 1941 | 3,155 | #70 | 2.6 |
| 1940 | 2,883 | #74 | 2.5 |
| 1939 | 2,530 | #79 | 2.3 |
| 1938 | 2,292 | #88 | 2.1 |
| 1937 | 2,090 | #94 | 2.0 |
| 1936 | 1,856 | #100 | 1.8 |
| 1935 | 1,665 | #112 | 1.6 |
| 1934 | 1,704 | #109 | 1.7 |
| 1933 | 1,573 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 1932 | 1,579 | #114 | 1.5 |
| 1931 | 1,569 | #111 | 1.5 |
| 1930 | 1,532 | #118 | 1.4 |
| 1929 | 1,442 | #121 | 1.3 |
| 1928 | 1,320 | #132 | 1.2 |
| 1927 | 1,253 | #140 | 1.1 |
| 1926 | 1,219 | #141 | 1.1 |
| 1925 | 1,153 | #143 | 1.0 |
| 1924 | 1,121 | #147 | 1.0 |
| 1923 | 1,055 | #147 | 1.0 |
| 1922 | 1,019 | #152 | 0.94 |
| 1921 | 1,001 | #152 | 0.91 |
| 1920 | 877 | #159 | 0.82 |
| 1919 | 816 | #166 | 0.83 |
| 1918 | 871 | #161 | 0.86 |
| 1917 | 836 | #154 | 0.90 |
| 1916 | 802 | #154 | 0.90 |
| 1915 | 704 | #164 | 0.83 |
| 1914 | 633 | #149 | 1.0 |
| 1913 | 502 | #148 | 1.0 |
| 1912 | 430 | #145 | 1.0 |
| 1911 | 272 | #128 | 1.2 |
| 1910 | 254 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 1909 | 199 | #135 | 1.2 |
| 1908 | 216 | #120 | 1.4 |
| 1907 | 215 | #111 | 1.5 |
| 1906 | 213 | #100 | 1.6 |
| 1905 | 193 | #110 | 1.5 |
| 1904 | 226 | #97 | 1.8 |
| 1903 | 210 | #94 | 1.8 |
| 1902 | 203 | #98 | 1.7 |
| 1901 | 181 | #93 | 1.7 |
| 1900 | 285 | #89 | 1.9 |
| 1899 | 221 | #86 | 2.1 |
| 1898 | 219 | #93 | 1.8 |
| 1897 | 210 | #87 | 1.9 |
| 1896 | 214 | #93 | 1.8 |
| 1895 | 233 | #82 | 2.0 |
| 1894 | 229 | #85 | 2.0 |
| 1893 | 234 | #79 | 2.1 |
| 1892 | 234 | #86 | 1.9 |
| 1891 | 212 | #78 | 2.1 |
| 1890 | 227 | #75 | 2.0 |
| 1889 | 236 | #74 | 2.1 |
| 1888 | 245 | #81 | 2.0 |
| 1887 | 218 | #76 | 2.1 |
| 1886 | 249 | #72 | 2.2 |
| 1885 | 217 | #77 | 2.0 |
| 1884 | 222 | #78 | 1.9 |
| 1883 | 213 | #75 | 2.0 |
| 1882 | 249 | #70 | 2.2 |
| 1881 | 188 | #75 | 1.9 |
| 1880 | 248 | #67 | 2.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Patrick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Patrick has been given almost only to boys: 2,834 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Patrick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Patrick, and how old are they?
546,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 689,424 Americans ever recorded as Patrick. The median Patrick alive today is 46 years old; half are between 34 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 551,884 people named Patrick (780 women and girls, 551,104 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 567,868 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10,500 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 125,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 146,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 165,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 73,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 26,400 |
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 Patrick born?
The states with the most babies named Patrick are New York, California and Illinois, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 65,641 | #164 | 1.2× |
| California | 60,987 | #370 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 43,261 | #148 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 39,997 | #153 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 34,651 | #357 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 33,018 | #268 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 31,555 | #233 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 24,252 | #138 | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 23,869 | #114 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 20,534 | #281 | 0.9× |
Where Patrick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Patrick is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 boys’ 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 Patrick 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 694,422 babies since 1880, Patrick is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,495 of their 1,495 babies (100%), again the 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 Patrick
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 Patrick and names like it
- Compare Patrick and PatricBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sPatrick peaked in 1964.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Patrick since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Patrick.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Patrick alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.