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Patrik vs Patti

American parents have registered 44,757 Pattis since 1880, against 692 Patriks. Patti is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Patrik 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 118 years in which either name was published, Patti for 87 years and Patrik for 31 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Patrik Patti
Total US births 69244,757
Most in one year 293,121
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 67035,000
Median age today 2766
Peak year 19921958
Best rank 2,467th boys137th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19671888
Girls / boys 0 / 69244,711 / 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 Patriks are over 27. That is 39 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Patrik Patti
England and Wales 53522
France 37010

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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