Pat
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
40,123
peak year 1941
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1941
- 1,900 births
- Best rank
- #134
- in 1940
- First recorded
- 1897
- #1,737 that year
- Last recorded
- 1991
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1943
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 89 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19411,900#134Peak
- 19461,871#147
- 19401,863#134
- 19431,840#145
- 19421,824#144
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #134 in 1940 · peak births 1,900 in 1941
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 40% boys■ 60% girls
26,732 boys · 40,123 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Pat has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.