girls:
40.1k births since 1897
#673 (88th percentile)
boys:
26.7k births since 1880
#700 (85th percentile)
overall:
66.9k births since 1880
#894 (88th percentile)
The name Pat is the #894 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 66,853 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #673 (88.2% percentile) for all time with 40,122 births since 1897. For boys, it ranks #700 (84.7% percentile) for all time with 26,731 births since 1880.
Pat has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1897 for girls). Birth data for Pat is available in 125 out of the 135 years between 1880 and 2014 (125 years for boys and 89 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Pat has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (60.0% of all recorded births). In 2014, 0.0% of babies named Pat were girls.
For girls, Pat reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 78.3% percentile (ranked #144) with 1,161 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 1,577 births per million (ranked 77.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
For boys, Pat reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 62.3% percentile (ranked #248) with 462 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 462 births per million (ranked 62.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pat".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Pat. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Pat is pronounced as pat, which has 1 syllables.
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