Patsy — #6616 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Patsy

The Social Security Administration has registered 119,425 babies named Patsy between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Patsy currently holds the #6616 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1941, when 4,788 babies received it in a single year. Patsy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 7,713 additional births since 1886.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Patsy performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 40,280 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Patsy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 18,542 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Patsy in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Patsy 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 119,425 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.