Meaning not yet researched.
Patrick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,495 in 2025. Its best rank was #30 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #30 in 1968; #235 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Patrick in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#235 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #30.
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Patrick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,495 boys in 2025. Peak: #30 in 1968 · most boys in one year: 14,692 (1964).
In 2025, 1,495 US boys were named Patrick, making it the 235th most common boys’ name of the year, down 14 places from #221 in 2024. That is 135 fewer than the 1,630 boys named Patrick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #30, reached in 1968. The most boys given the name in a single year was 14,692, in 1964. For comparison, it was #165 in 2015 and #38 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Patrick in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 248 babies with the name. In all, 689,424 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 123,238 babies named Patrick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 18,770 US boys were named Patrick; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,360. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,143 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Patrick ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #63 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Pat (66,855 babies since 1880), Patty (62,699 babies since 1880), Patricio (4,624 babies since 1880) and Patrice (34,861 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Patryk, Padraic and Patrik are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Paddy, Pat, Pate, Patsy and Peter.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Patryk (1,030), Padraic (973), Patrik (692), Patrece (325), Patryce (114), Pattrick (89), Patriece (85), Patrich (76), Patryck (74).
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 boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 12 | #63 | #162 |
| District of Columbia | 9 | #105 | #86 |
| Massachusetts | 64 | #114 | #78 |
| Connecticut | 29 | #131 | #107 |
| Maryland | 46 | #131 | #124 |
| New Jersey | 71 | #138 | #97 |
| Illinois | 80 | #148 | #95 |
| Pennsylvania | 85 | #153 | #110 |
| New York | 117 | #164 | #129 |
| Maine | 8 | #167 | #155 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #173 | #185 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #188 | #234 |
| Minnesota | 35 | #192 | #138 |
| Virginia | 47 | #192 | #133 |
| Nebraska | 14 | #195 | #188 |
| Missouri | 35 | #205 | #163 |
| Kentucky | 27 | #209 | #220 |
| Colorado | 31 | #215 | #225 |
| Wisconsin | 29 | #215 | #231 |
| Oregon | 20 | #216 | #200 |
| South Carolina | 25 | #231 | #144 |
| Ohio | 55 | #233 | #146 |
| Louisiana | 22 | #237 | #148 |
| Iowa | 16 | #255 | #233 |
| Michigan | 38 | #268 | #166 |
| Alabama | 21 | #271 | #195 |
| Indiana | 30 | #277 | #200 |
| Florida | 73 | #281 | #163 |
| North Carolina | 44 | #283 | #166 |
| Utah | 18 | #284 | #414 |
| Washington | 26 | #296 | #159 |
| Kansas | 12 | #318 | #220 |
| Georgia | 35 | #347 | #188 |
| Texas | 105 | #357 | #220 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #361 | #222 |
| Idaho | 7 | #366 | #233 |
| California | 94 | #370 | #209 |
| Arizona | 21 | #373 | #212 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #380 | #221 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #388 | #245 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #402 | #148 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #416 | #260 |
| Nevada | 7 | #429 | #266 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,495 | #235 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,630 | #221 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,601 | #224 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,717 | #218 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,791 | #212 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,867 | #205 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,881 | #207 |
| 2018 | — | — | 2,124 | #189 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,818 | 2,304 | #171 |
| 2016 | — | — | 2,360 | #170 |
| 2015 | — | — | 2,535 | #165 |
| 2014 | — | — | 2,680 | #152 |
| 2013 | — | — | 2,598 | #154 |
| 2012 | — | — | 2,823 | #140 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,885 | 2,868 | #143 |
| 2010 | — | — | 3,139 | #129 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,494 | 3,250 | #129 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,968 | 3,339 | #127 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,085 | 3,736 | #116 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,318 | 3,947 | #110 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,736 | 4,044 | #108 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,737 | 4,441 | #100 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,116 | 4,789 | #91 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,870 | 5,153 | #79 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,867 | 5,786 | #72 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,702 | 6,297 | #68 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,311 | 6,447 | #63 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,903 | 6,734 | #57 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,189 | 7,490 | #50 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,298 | 8,194 | #44 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,970 | 8,674 | #43 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,799 | 9,337 | #42 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,655 | 9,857 | #43 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,755 | 11,409 | #39 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,026 | 12,412 | #35 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,781 | 12,377 | #36 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,187 | 11,987 | #38 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,561 | 11,400 | #42 |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,480 | 11,142 | #41 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,764 | 11,410 | #39 |
| 1985 | 77 | #1,571 | 11,638 | #37 |
| 1984 | 93 | #1,319 | 11,524 | #36 |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,506 | 10,876 | #37 |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,633 | 10,695 | #37 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,880 | 10,384 | #38 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,566 | 10,352 | #38 |
| 1979 | 71 | #1,600 | 9,979 | #39 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,909 | 8,830 | #42 |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,085 | 8,305 | #40 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,283 | 7,642 | #41 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,866 | 8,053 | #39 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,661 | 8,137 | #38 |
| 1973 | 41 | #2,001 | 8,480 | #37 |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,442 | 9,276 | #35 |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,554 | 10,808 | #35 |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,402 | 11,730 | #33 |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,660 | 12,675 | #31 |
| 1968 | 80 | #1,230 | 13,062 | #30 |
| 1967 | 67 | #1,344 | 12,976 | #30 |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,506 | 12,405 | #31 |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,651 | 12,929 | #31 |
| 1964 | 58 | #1,493 | 14,692 | #30 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,778 | 12,071 | #35 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,754 | 10,499 | #40 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,138 | 11,052 | #39 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,718 | 10,356 | #45 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,784 | 10,556 | #43 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,243 | 10,247 | #42 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,699 | 10,353 | #41 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,092 | 10,326 | #40 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,263 | 9,869 | #41 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,357 | 9,927 | #38 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,220 | 9,468 | #39 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,849 | 9,175 | #37 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,832 | 8,751 | #39 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,109 | 8,179 | #38 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,908 | 8,075 | #39 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,312 | 7,192 | #48 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,932 | 6,622 | #53 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,079 | 5,305 | #59 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,318 | 3,854 | #63 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,267 | 3,881 | #64 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,530 | 3,848 | #69 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,288 | 3,804 | #64 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,865 | 3,155 | #70 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,697 | 2,883 | #74 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,106 | 2,530 | #79 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,127 | 2,292 | #88 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,369 | 2,090 | #94 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,484 | 1,856 | #100 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,751 | 1,665 | #112 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,718 | 1,704 | #109 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,651 | 1,573 | #110 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,796 | 1,579 | #114 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,088 | 1,569 | #111 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,279 | 1,532 | #118 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,879 | 1,442 | #121 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,478 | 1,320 | #132 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,823 | 1,253 | #140 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,445 | 1,219 | #141 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,840 | 1,153 | #143 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,923 | 1,121 | #147 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,078 | 1,055 | #147 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,352 | 1,019 | #152 |
| 1921 | — | — | 1,001 | #152 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,598 | 877 | #159 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,165 | 816 | #166 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,415 | 871 | #161 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,475 | 836 | #154 |
| 1916 | — | — | 802 | #154 |
| 1915 | — | — | 704 | #164 |
| 1914 | — | — | 633 | #149 |
| 1913 | — | — | 502 | #148 |
| 1912 | — | — | 430 | #145 |
| 1911 | — | — | 272 | #128 |
| 1910 | — | — | 254 | #129 |
| 1909 | — | — | 199 | #135 |
| 1908 | — | — | 216 | #120 |
| 1907 | — | — | 215 | #111 |
| 1906 | — | — | 213 | #100 |
| 1905 | — | — | 193 | #110 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,816 | 226 | #97 |
| 1903 | — | — | 210 | #94 |
| 1902 | — | — | 203 | #98 |
| 1901 | — | — | 181 | #93 |
| 1900 | — | — | 285 | #89 |
| 1899 | — | — | 221 | #86 |
| 1898 | — | — | 219 | #93 |
| 1897 | — | — | 210 | #87 |
| 1896 | — | — | 214 | #93 |
| 1895 | — | — | 233 | #82 |
| 1894 | — | — | 229 | #85 |
| 1893 | — | — | 234 | #79 |
| 1892 | — | — | 234 | #86 |
| 1891 | — | — | 212 | #78 |
| 1890 | — | — | 227 | #75 |
| 1889 | — | — | 236 | #74 |
| 1888 | — | — | 245 | #81 |
| 1887 | — | — | 218 | #76 |
| 1886 | — | — | 249 | #72 |
| 1885 | — | — | 217 | #77 |
| 1884 | — | — | 222 | #78 |
| 1883 | — | — | 213 | #75 |
| 1882 | — | — | 249 | #70 |
| 1881 | — | — | 188 | #75 |
| 1880 | — | — | 248 | #67 |
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).