girls:
2.8k births since 1904
#3260 (43rd percentile)
boys:
683.4k births since 1880
#49 (99th percentile)
overall:
686.3k births since 1880
#86 (99th percentile)
The name Patrick is the #86 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 686,279 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #49 (99.0% percentile) for all time with 683,445 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,260 (43.0% percentile) for all time with 2,834 births since 1904.
Patrick has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1904 for girls).
The name Patrick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Patrick reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 95.6% percentile (ranked #30) with 7,250 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 7,355 births per million (ranked 95.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1987, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Patrick ranks #221 for boys (75.8% percentile) with 872 births per million, which is 11.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Patrick reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 11.2% percentile (ranked #700) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 52 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Patrick".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Patrick. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Patrick is pronounced as PA-trihk, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like P AE1 T R IH0 K) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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