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Patrina vs Patti

American parents have registered 44,757 Pattis since 1880, against 2,063 Patrinas. Patti is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Patrina 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 97 years and Patrina for 10 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Patrina Patti
Total US births 2,06344,757
Most in one year 943,121
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 1,80035,000
Median age today 5266
Peak year 19711958
Best rank 1,204th girls137th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19151888
Girls / boys 2,063 / 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 Patrinas are over 52. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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