Patterson
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#11,654
not recorded in 2025
2025 births
6
All-time births
540
1% of them in 2025
More common than
83%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2013
- 16 births
- Best rank
- #2,404
- in 1955
- First recorded
- 1912
- #2,815 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1974
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 68 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 201316#5,581Peak
- 201516#5,675
- 201014#6,288
- 195512#2,404
- 200611#7,297
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #2,404 in 1955 · peak births 16 in 2013
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 96% boys■ 4% girls
540 boys · 20 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 Patterson has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.