Meaning not yet researched.
Patty: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #140 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #140 in 1959; #16,671 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Patty in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,671 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #140.
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Patty: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #140 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 3,113 (1959).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Patty, making it the 16,671st most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,547 places from #13,124 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 7 girls named Patty in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #140, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,113. For comparison, it was #14,149 in 2015 and #251 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Patty in 130 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 9 babies. In all, 62,699 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 17,548 babies named Patty.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 32 US girls were named Patty; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 7. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Patricia (1,578,584 babies since 1880), Patrick (689,424 babies since 1880), Patsy (127,161 babies since 1880) and Pat (66,855 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Pati, Pattye and Patia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Patricia.
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: Pati (403), Pattye (297), Patia (50), Pattii (6), Paty (5).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,671 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,124 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,827 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,755 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,002 | — | — |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,149 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,218 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,258 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,253 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,990 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,604 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,839 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,365 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,333 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,229 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,071 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,394 | — | — |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,486 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,326 | — | — |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,537 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,155 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,372 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,300 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,097 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,155 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,853 | — | — |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,762 | — | — |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 1988 | 83 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1987 | 66 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1985 | 73 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1984 | 82 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 1983 | 110 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1982 | 127 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1981 | 127 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1980 | 109 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1979 | 129 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1978 | 145 | #961 | — | — |
| 1977 | 172 | #858 | — | — |
| 1976 | 192 | #754 | — | — |
| 1975 | 251 | #628 | — | — |
| 1974 | 311 | #543 | — | — |
| 1973 | 341 | #506 | — | — |
| 1972 | 407 | #457 | 5 | #5,543 |
| 1971 | 514 | #414 | — | — |
| 1970 | 595 | #395 | — | — |
| 1969 | 679 | #344 | — | — |
| 1968 | 719 | #325 | — | — |
| 1967 | 889 | #286 | 8 | #3,173 |
| 1966 | 1,110 | #256 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,664 | #199 | 5 | #4,296 |
| 1964 | 2,348 | #167 | 6 | #3,923 |
| 1963 | 2,194 | #176 | — | — |
| 1962 | 2,332 | #172 | — | — |
| 1961 | 2,650 | #157 | 8 | #3,289 |
| 1960 | 2,936 | #145 | — | — |
| 1959 | 3,113 | #140 | 10 | #2,774 |
| 1958 | 2,789 | #146 | — | — |
| 1957 | 2,169 | #174 | 5 | #4,404 |
| 1956 | 1,447 | #213 | 7 | #3,449 |
| 1955 | 1,330 | #222 | 5 | #4,248 |
| 1954 | 1,249 | #227 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,139 | #239 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,045 | #245 | — | — |
| 1951 | 923 | #252 | — | — |
| 1950 | 902 | #251 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,044 | #230 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,138 | #217 | 5 | #4,056 |
| 1947 | 1,318 | #203 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,289 | #191 | 7 | #3,109 |
| 1945 | 1,059 | #192 | 9 | #2,532 |
| 1944 | 981 | #203 | 7 | #3,050 |
| 1943 | 1,186 | #187 | 13 | #2,154 |
| 1942 | 1,164 | #186 | 11 | #2,356 |
| 1941 | 1,139 | #176 | 7 | #3,071 |
| 1940 | 1,099 | #175 | — | — |
| 1939 | 1,052 | #181 | 9 | #2,575 |
| 1938 | 1,158 | #175 | 11 | #2,288 |
| 1937 | 1,112 | #180 | 8 | #2,844 |
| 1936 | 986 | #183 | 6 | #3,444 |
| 1935 | 916 | #190 | — | — |
| 1934 | 1,072 | #173 | 5 | #4,083 |
| 1933 | 894 | #191 | — | — |
| 1932 | 839 | #214 | 7 | #3,289 |
| 1931 | 827 | #213 | 9 | #2,826 |
| 1930 | 769 | #223 | 11 | #2,565 |
| 1929 | 632 | #250 | 7 | #3,466 |
| 1928 | 512 | #292 | 6 | #4,037 |
| 1927 | 437 | #319 | 5 | #4,651 |
| 1926 | 324 | #379 | 5 | #4,672 |
| 1925 | 270 | #419 | — | — |
| 1924 | 181 | #539 | — | — |
| 1923 | 139 | #625 | 7 | #3,729 |
| 1922 | 106 | #708 | 5 | #4,803 |
| 1921 | 77 | #847 | 5 | #4,819 |
| 1920 | 86 | #784 | 5 | #4,806 |
| 1919 | 57 | #939 | — | — |
| 1918 | 49 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1917 | 49 | #1,010 | 5 | #4,433 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,078 | 7 | #3,431 |
| 1915 | 42 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1914 | 27 | #1,195 | 6 | #3,175 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1912 | 24 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1883 | 6 | #899 | — | — |
| 1880 | 9 | #620 | — | — |
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).