Patton
Patton is a boy's name that peaked in 2015, when it was the 2,036th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,240th. About 1,600 Pattons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Patton boys named Patton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,763
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 2,036th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,240th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 99 / 1,664
How old the living Pattons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,763 babies given the name since 1915, about 1,600 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 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.
Notable Pattons
- Patton Oswalt (born 1969)American actor and comedian
People named Patton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Patton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Patton is most concentrated in Texas (6.8×), Tennessee (5.9×), Alabama (4.3×), Georgia (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular boys’ names the year Patton peaked:
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Patton 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.