girls:
119.4k births since 1880
#323 (94th percentile)
boys:
7.7k births since 1886
#1341 (71st percentile)
overall:
127.1k births since 1880
#584 (92nd percentile)
The name Patsy is the #584 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 127,117 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #323 (94.4% percentile) for all time with 119,404 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #1,341 (70.8% percentile) for all time with 7,713 births since 1886.
Patsy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1886 for boys).
The name Patsy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Patsy reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 91.3% percentile (ranked #52) with 3,843 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 3,894 births per million (ranked 91.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Patsy ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Patsy reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 45.9% percentile (ranked #290) with 294 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 307 births per million (ranked 23.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Patsy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Patsy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Patsy is pronounced as PAT-see, which has 2 syllables.
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