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Patsey

About 512 American babies have been named Patsey since 1911, most of them around 1942. It has not appeared in the national data since 1965. About 260 Patseys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 77.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Patsey boys named Patsey

By the numbers

Total US births
512
Estimated living today
260
Median age today
77
Peak year
1942
Best rank
1,630th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1911
Girls / boys
507 / 5

How old the living Patseys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 512 babies given the name since 1911, about 260 are alive — 50 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1948 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 1942

The most popular girls’ names the year Patsey peaked:

All the names of 1942

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.