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Patrecia vs Patty

American parents have registered 62,699 Pattys since 1880, against 614 Patrecias. Patty is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Patrecia Patty

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

Patty has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Patrecia had 6 and Patty had 49.

Side by side

  Patrecia Patty
Total US births 61462,699
Most in one year 263,123
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 34042,000
Median age today 7466
Peak year 19511959
Best rank 1,921st girls140th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19191880
Girls / boys 614 / 062,452 / 247

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 Patrecias alive today are over 74; half the Pattys are over 66. That is 8 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: Patrecia and Patty.