Patton
Patton is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 36 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,498 among girls’ names and #3,290 among boys’, #6,379 among all names counting both); 1,763 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Patton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Patton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Patton?
#3,290 among boys’ names, 2025
Patton fell from #2,048 in 2015 to #3,290 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 36.5 to 21.1 per million.
77 babies in 2015, the peak
Patton peaked in 2015, when 77 babies were given it (70 boys, #2,048 among boys’ names). The 42 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,290 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,306 | 36.0 |
| 2023 | 46 | #2,790 | 26.9 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,549 | 30.9 |
| 2021 | 52 | #2,546 | 29.7 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,386 | 32.4 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,253 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,251 | 33.6 |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,046 | 37.3 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,081 | 35.8 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,048 | 36.5 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,480 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,269 | 30.1 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,581 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 50 | #2,497 | 26.3 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,715 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,454 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,805 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,865 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,585 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,882 | 18.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,372 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,090 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,850 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,588 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,976 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,283 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,805 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,398 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,131 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,791 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,860 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,771 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,187 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,225 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,254 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,727 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,016 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,818 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,255 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,423 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,797 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,086 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,337 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,729 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,179 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,076 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,245 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,201 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,389 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,875 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,271 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,591 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,289 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,014 | 3.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,460 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,822 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,619 | 5.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,501 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,451 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,891 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,976 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,872 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,134 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,420 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,688 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,366 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,124 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,283 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,591 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,957 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,745 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,331 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,241 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,837 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,062 | 9.5 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,464 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,139 | 5.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,813 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,436 | 5.4 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,578 | 5.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,588 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,698 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,074 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,970 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,130 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,800 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,816 | 4.5 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,770 | 10.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Patton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,763 Americans recorded as Patton, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Patton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Patton, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,763 Americans ever recorded as Patton. The median Patton alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,532 people named Patton (210 women and girls, 1,322 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,312 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 87 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 85 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 121 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 489 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 789 |
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 Patton born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,859 | 0.8× |
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 Patton 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,850 babies since 1880, Patton is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 42 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 Patton
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 Patton and names like it
- Compare Patton and PatonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPatton peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Patton since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Patton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Patton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.