girls:
1.6M births since 1884
#3 (100th percentile)
boys:
5k births since 1917
#1703 (63rd percentile)
overall:
1.6M births since 1884
#16 (100th percentile)
The name Patricia is the #16 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,578,204 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 99.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3 (100.0% percentile) for all time with 1,573,241 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #1,703 (62.9% percentile) for all time with 4,963 births since 1917.
Patricia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1917 for boys).
The name Patricia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Patricia reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 99.7% percentile (ranked #3) with 30,556 births per million. The name was most common in 1951, with 30,556 births per million (ranked 99.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1951, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Patricia ranks #750 for girls (20.8% percentile) with 115 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Patricia reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 26.7% percentile (ranked #386) with 123 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 123 births per million (ranked 26.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Patricia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Patricia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.4% confident that Patricia is pronounced as puh-TRIH-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is puh-TREE-shuh, at 14.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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