Meaning not yet researched.
Patricia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 167 in 2025. Its best rank was #3 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3 in 1952; #1,336 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Patricia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,336 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #3.
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Patricia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 167 girls in 2025. Peak: #3 in 1952 · most girls in one year: 56,446 (1951).
In 2025, 167 US girls were named Patricia, making it the 1,336th most common girls’ name of the year, down 41 places from #1,295 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 179 girls named Patricia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3, reached in 1952. The most girls given the name in a single year was 56,446, in 1951. For comparison, it was #802 in 2015 and #3 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Patricia in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 6 babies. In all, 1,578,584 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 460,702 babies named Patricia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,475 US girls were named Patricia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 387. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,624 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Patricia ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #814 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Patsy (127,161 babies since 1880), Pat (66,855 babies since 1880), Patty (62,699 babies since 1880) and Pattie (9,509 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Patrecia, Patrizia and Patrisia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Pat, Patsy, Patti, Patty, Tricia and Trish.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, French, Galician, Italian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Patrecia (614), Patrizia (417), Patrisia (411), Patrycja (227), Patrici (222), Pattricia (87), Patricie (75), Patrycia (48), Patriciaa (11), Patracia (11), Ppatricia (10), Patrricia (7), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 6 | #814 | — |
| North Carolina | 10 | #960 | #1,067 |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,007 | #563 |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,013 | #835 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,109 | #954 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,148 | #627 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,177 | #766 |
| California | 22 | #1,180 | #866 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,202 | #1,091 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,208 | #555 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,225 | #706 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 167 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 2024 | 179 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 2023 | 203 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 2022 | 222 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 2021 | 212 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 2020 | 217 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 2019 | 281 | #942 | — | — |
| 2018 | 299 | #900 | — | — |
| 2017 | 308 | #884 | — | — |
| 2016 | 387 | #736 | — | — |
| 2015 | 351 | #802 | — | — |
| 2014 | 380 | #738 | — | — |
| 2013 | 419 | #677 | — | — |
| 2012 | 396 | #712 | — | — |
| 2011 | 431 | #659 | — | — |
| 2010 | 479 | #617 | — | — |
| 2009 | 565 | #535 | — | — |
| 2008 | 630 | #499 | — | — |
| 2007 | 728 | #443 | — | — |
| 2006 | 776 | #411 | 5 | #13,498 |
| 2005 | 880 | #356 | — | — |
| 2004 | 998 | #317 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,011 | #307 | 5 | #12,260 |
| 2002 | 1,115 | #281 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,224 | #261 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,393 | #226 | 5 | #11,691 |
| 1999 | 1,532 | #201 | 5 | #11,155 |
| 1998 | 1,704 | #180 | 6 | #9,330 |
| 1997 | 1,781 | #169 | 6 | #8,968 |
| 1996 | 1,970 | #159 | 8 | #6,948 |
| 1995 | 2,161 | #150 | 8 | #6,821 |
| 1994 | 2,363 | #135 | 11 | #5,360 |
| 1993 | 2,659 | #125 | 18 | #3,609 |
| 1992 | 2,950 | #111 | 11 | #5,157 |
| 1991 | 3,419 | #101 | 18 | #3,426 |
| 1990 | 3,579 | #97 | 39 | #1,960 |
| 1989 | 3,603 | #89 | 47 | #1,672 |
| 1988 | 3,799 | #77 | 43 | #1,663 |
| 1987 | 3,913 | #76 | 38 | #1,750 |
| 1986 | 4,246 | #66 | 38 | #1,684 |
| 1985 | 4,402 | #64 | 35 | #1,753 |
| 1984 | 4,476 | #66 | 32 | #1,791 |
| 1983 | 4,926 | #60 | 31 | #1,804 |
| 1982 | 5,168 | #59 | 44 | #1,460 |
| 1981 | 5,284 | #53 | 27 | #2,027 |
| 1980 | 5,310 | #51 | 39 | #1,562 |
| 1979 | 5,650 | #44 | 38 | #1,557 |
| 1978 | 5,498 | #48 | 34 | #1,642 |
| 1977 | 5,903 | #47 | 32 | #1,697 |
| 1976 | 6,017 | #43 | 35 | #1,564 |
| 1975 | 7,053 | #36 | 29 | #1,743 |
| 1974 | 8,036 | #29 | 48 | #1,211 |
| 1973 | 8,476 | #27 | 52 | #1,144 |
| 1972 | 9,602 | #27 | 48 | #1,188 |
| 1971 | 11,470 | #26 | 51 | #1,155 |
| 1970 | 13,406 | #24 | 71 | #956 |
| 1969 | 14,959 | #18 | 65 | #956 |
| 1968 | 15,803 | #15 | 69 | #873 |
| 1967 | 17,753 | #11 | 64 | #906 |
| 1966 | 20,112 | #7 | 81 | #810 |
| 1965 | 23,552 | #6 | 64 | #928 |
| 1964 | 26,091 | #5 | 84 | #829 |
| 1963 | 25,374 | #7 | 72 | #884 |
| 1962 | 26,532 | #6 | 80 | #848 |
| 1961 | 28,889 | #6 | 77 | #872 |
| 1960 | 32,113 | #7 | 70 | #908 |
| 1959 | 35,223 | #6 | 87 | #821 |
| 1958 | 37,961 | #5 | 106 | #727 |
| 1957 | 39,283 | #8 | 91 | #788 |
| 1956 | 43,329 | #6 | 102 | #731 |
| 1955 | 46,226 | #6 | 91 | #765 |
| 1954 | 49,149 | #4 | 101 | #720 |
| 1953 | 51,019 | #4 | 127 | #634 |
| 1952 | 53,101 | #3 | 104 | #686 |
| 1951 | 56,446 | #3 | 128 | #625 |
| 1950 | 47,944 | #3 | 84 | #752 |
| 1949 | 46,324 | #3 | 103 | #676 |
| 1948 | 46,140 | #4 | 95 | #687 |
| 1947 | 51,278 | #3 | 120 | #629 |
| 1946 | 46,297 | #3 | 111 | #613 |
| 1945 | 35,844 | #4 | 99 | #608 |
| 1944 | 36,874 | #4 | 115 | #574 |
| 1943 | 39,620 | #3 | 146 | #517 |
| 1942 | 39,465 | #3 | 159 | #488 |
| 1941 | 36,905 | #3 | 154 | #475 |
| 1940 | 32,665 | #3 | 140 | #493 |
| 1939 | 29,701 | #3 | 110 | #548 |
| 1938 | 27,560 | #3 | 107 | #567 |
| 1937 | 26,838 | #3 | 98 | #583 |
| 1936 | 23,916 | #5 | 100 | #580 |
| 1935 | 22,879 | #5 | 86 | #637 |
| 1934 | 20,844 | #6 | 68 | #745 |
| 1933 | 18,632 | #6 | 76 | #684 |
| 1932 | 17,992 | #6 | 45 | #989 |
| 1931 | 16,469 | #8 | 46 | #980 |
| 1930 | 15,751 | #7 | 52 | #939 |
| 1929 | 13,624 | #10 | 43 | #1,051 |
| 1928 | 12,331 | #11 | 32 | #1,290 |
| 1927 | 10,554 | #18 | 38 | #1,172 |
| 1926 | 8,586 | #23 | 29 | #1,376 |
| 1925 | 8,096 | #28 | 23 | #1,618 |
| 1924 | 6,957 | #35 | 18 | #1,953 |
| 1923 | 4,800 | #56 | — | — |
| 1922 | 3,902 | #69 | 8 | #3,465 |
| 1921 | 3,380 | #84 | 10 | #2,930 |
| 1920 | 2,502 | #104 | 7 | #3,737 |
| 1919 | 2,144 | #114 | 8 | #3,314 |
| 1918 | 1,760 | #133 | 5 | #4,651 |
| 1917 | 1,441 | #147 | 6 | #3,874 |
| 1916 | 1,078 | #174 | — | — |
| 1915 | 895 | #189 | — | — |
| 1914 | 656 | #201 | — | — |
| 1913 | 588 | #190 | — | — |
| 1912 | 504 | #195 | — | — |
| 1911 | 325 | #218 | — | — |
| 1910 | 316 | #206 | — | — |
| 1909 | 233 | #234 | — | — |
| 1908 | 205 | #238 | — | — |
| 1907 | 177 | #260 | — | — |
| 1906 | 157 | #263 | — | — |
| 1905 | 121 | #307 | — | — |
| 1904 | 124 | #287 | — | — |
| 1903 | 79 | #358 | — | — |
| 1902 | 85 | #345 | — | — |
| 1901 | 68 | #367 | — | — |
| 1900 | 87 | #362 | — | — |
| 1899 | 55 | #389 | — | — |
| 1898 | 46 | #455 | — | — |
| 1897 | 49 | #419 | — | — |
| 1896 | 37 | #484 | — | — |
| 1895 | 35 | #498 | — | — |
| 1894 | 36 | #472 | — | — |
| 1893 | 28 | #531 | — | — |
| 1892 | 21 | #634 | — | — |
| 1891 | 12 | #832 | — | — |
| 1890 | 11 | #864 | — | — |
| 1889 | 17 | #635 | — | — |
| 1888 | 12 | #785 | — | — |
| 1887 | 10 | #781 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #879 | — | — |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #1,001 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).