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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Patricia

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,336

down −41 places

2025 births

167

down −12 births

All-time births

1,573,623

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1951
56,446 births
Best rank
#3
in 1937
First recorded
1884
#1,001 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1952
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
142 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 195156,446#3Peak
  2. 195253,101#3
  3. 194751,278#3
  4. 195351,019#4
  5. 195449,149#4

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #3 in 1937 · peak births 56,446 in 1951

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

4,961 boys · 1,573,623 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 Patricia has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.