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Patra vs Patti

American parents have registered 44,757 Pattis since 1880, against 517 Patras. Patti is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Patra against Patti, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Patra Patti

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Patti for 103 years and Patra for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Patra Patti
Total US births 51744,757
Most in one year 343,121
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 43035,000
Median age today 5066
Peak year 19941958
Best rank 3,302nd girls137th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19191888
Girls / boys 517 / 044,711 / 46

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Pattis alive today are over 66; half the Patras are over 50. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Patra and Patti.