Meaning not yet researched.
Patton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,838 in 1945.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,838 in 1945; #3,291 in 2025. About 86% of babies named Patton in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,291 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1945, at #1,838.
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Patton: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,838 in 1945 · most boys in one year: 70 (2015).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Patton, making it the 3,291st most common boys’ name of the year, down 985 places from #2,306 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 62 boys named Patton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,838, reached in 1945. The most boys given the name in a single year was 70, in 2015. For comparison, it was #2,048 in 2015 and #3,593 in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Patton, making it the 14,502nd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #11,926, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8. For comparison, it was #14,148 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Patton in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 9 babies. In all, 1,763 US babies have been given the name, 5.6% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 629 babies named Patton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 566 US boys were named Patton; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 69. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Payton (84,784 babies since 1880), Paityn (6,338 babies since 1880), Payten (3,975 babies since 1880) and Paiton (1,372 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
No nicknames listed for Patton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,502 | 36 | #3,291 |
| 2024 | — | — | 62 | #2,306 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,130 | 46 | #2,791 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,550 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,926 | 52 | #2,547 |
| 2020 | — | — | 56 | #2,387 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,390 | 62 | #2,254 |
| 2018 | — | — | 61 | #2,252 |
| 2017 | — | — | 69 | #2,046 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,774 | 68 | #2,081 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,148 | 70 | #2,048 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,217 | 51 | #2,482 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,610 | 57 | #2,270 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,382 | 48 | #2,582 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,474 | 50 | #2,498 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,142 | 45 | #2,716 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,495 | 32 | #3,456 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,008 | 28 | #3,808 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,086 | 27 | #3,867 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,587 |
| 2005 | — | — | 37 | #2,886 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,594 | 20 | #4,377 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,094 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,444 | 16 | #4,856 |
| 2001 | — | — | 24 | #3,593 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,983 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,288 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,810 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,403 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,137 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,797 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,866 |
| 1993 | — | — | 17 | #3,777 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,194 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,232 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,261 |
| 1989 | — | — | 11 | #4,733 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,023 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,825 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,260 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,427 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,799 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,088 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,339 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,731 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,180 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #4,078 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,247 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,203 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,391 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,877 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,273 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,593 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,290 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,015 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,461 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,823 |
| 1964 | — | — | 11 | #2,620 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,502 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,452 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,892 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,977 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,873 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,135 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,421 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,689 |
| 1953 | — | — | 12 | #2,367 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,126 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,284 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,593 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,958 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,746 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,332 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,242 |
| 1945 | — | — | 15 | #1,838 |
| 1944 | — | — | 13 | #2,063 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,465 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,140 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,814 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,437 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,580 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,590 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,699 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,076 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,971 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,133 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,802 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,818 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,771 |
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).