Patterson
About 560 American babies have been named Patterson since 1912, most of them around 2013. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 390 Pattersons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Patterson boys named Patterson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 560
- Estimated living today
- 390
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 5,404th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 20 / 540
How old the living Pattersons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 560 babies given the name since 1912, about 390 are alive — 69 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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 2013
The most popular boys’ names the year Patterson peaked:
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Patterson against another name
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.