Patti vs Patty
American parents have registered 62,699 Pattys since 1880, against 44,757 Pattis. But in 2025 it was Patti that was commoner, 6 babies to 5.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Patti 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
Of the 133 years in which either name was published, Patty for 120 years and Patti for 13 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.
Side by side
| Patti | Patty | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 44,757 | 62,699 |
| Most in one year | 3,121 | 3,123 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | 5 |
| Estimated living today | 35,000 | 42,000 |
| Median age today | 66 | 66 |
| Peak year | 1958 | 1959 |
| Best rank | 137th girls | 140th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 13,208th | 14,942nd |
| First recorded | 1888 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 44,711 / 46 | 62,452 / 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.
Where each one is strongest
- Patti Montana (2.7×), Wisconsin (2.2×), Oklahoma (1.7×)
- Patty West Virginia (4.6×), South Dakota (2.5×), Nebraska (2.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Patti | Patty |
|---|---|---|
| France | 10 | 135 |
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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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Patti and Patty.