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How popular is “Pat” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pat” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Pat” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Pat” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Pat” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Pat” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Pat” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pat” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 12 0.000059558 12 -100%
1881 20 0.000103795 20 -100%
1882 28 0.000126392 28 -100%
1883 20 0.000092189 20 -100%
1884 26 0.000106793 26 -100%
1885 23 0.000095494 23 -100%
1886 23 0.000090084 23 -100%
1887 19 0.000076801 19 -100%
1888 30 0.000100176 30 -100%
1889 19 0.000065756 19 -100%
1890 29 0.000096217 29 -100%
1891 16 0.000055813 16 -100%
1892 24 0.000071776 24 -100%
1893 27 0.00008302 27 -100%
1894 28 0.000082671 28 -100%
1895 36 0.000102558 36 -100%
1896 27 0.000075528 27 -100%
1897 37 0.000106641 5 32 -73%
1898 27 0.000070782 7 20 -48%
1899 27 0.000079591 27 -100%
1900 50 0.000111047 50 -100%
1901 32 0.000092536 32 -100%
1902 42 0.000108602 7 35 -67%
1903 41 0.000107555 8 33 -61%
1904 41 0.000101615 6 35 -71%
1905 41 0.000096716 6 35 -71%
1906 42 0.000098028 7 35 -67%
1907 44 0.000094544 11 33 -50%
1908 49 0.000100276 13 36 -47%
1909 57 0.000111497 15 42 -47%
1910 77 0.000130351 19 58 -51%
1911 70 0.000108649 21 49 -40%
1912 106 0.000107281 31 75 -42%
1913 120 0.000105531 30 90 -50%
1914 173 0.000122145 45 128 -48%
1915 212 0.000115694 46 166 -57%
1916 240 0.000124068 63 177 -47%
1917 237 0.000118101 52 185 -56%
1918 285 0.000131269 70 215 -51%
1919 257 0.000121787 77 180 -40%
1920 282 0.000124633 78 204 -45%
1921 298 0.00012765 75 223 -50%
1922 325 0.000141974 96 229 -41%
1923 339 0.000147232 112 227 -34%
1924 398 0.000167114 158 240 -21%
1925 493 0.000211289 198 295 -20%
1926 635 0.000276579 338 297 6%
1927 694 0.000299221 407 287 17%
1928 817 0.000361354 457 360 12%
1929 960 0.000437924 597 363 24%
1930 1107 0.000497911 734 373 33%
1931 1333 0.000633438 926 407 39%
1932 1511 0.000715676 1061 450 40%
1933 1525 0.000762711 1146 379 50%
1934 1676 0.000807005 1204 472 44%
1935 1784 0.000853629 1326 458 49%
1936 1765 0.000849547 1344 421 52%
1937 2012 0.000944304 1529 483 52%
1938 1953 0.000882682 1533 420 57%
1939 2105 0.000955324 1659 446 58%
1940 2345 0.001018376 1863 482 59%
1941 2430 0.000997363 1900 530 56%
1942 2358 0.000863161 1824 534 55%
1943 2359 0.000835766 1840 519 56%
1944 2087 0.000775814 1592 495 53%
1945 2012 0.000758412 1520 492 51%
1946 2495 0.000780833 1872 623 50%
1947 2543 0.000705934 1823 720 43%
1948 1845 0.000534393 1249 596 35%
1949 1163 0.000333737 667 496 15%
1950 824 0.000235203 440 384 7%
1951 640 0.000173737 325 315 2%
1952 628 0.00016535 300 328 -4%
1953 553 0.000143501 247 306 -11%
1954 605 0.000151983 291 314 -4%
1955 688 0.000171354 359 329 4%
1956 853 0.000206886 435 418 2%
1957 1449 0.000344824 815 634 12%
1958 1886 0.000456227 1042 844 10%
1959 1950 0.000468976 1002 948 3%
1960 1754 0.000422262 755 999 -14%
1961 1541 0.000372015 611 930 -21%
1962 1314 0.000325621 484 830 -26%
1963 1049 0.000265019 311 738 -41%
1964 1021 0.00026263 273 748 -47%
1965 681 0.000187839 162 519 -52%
1966 517 0.000148749 106 411 -59%
1967 433 0.000127544 78 355 -64%
1968 352 0.000104191 63 289 -64%
1969 268 0.000077115 41 227 -69%
1970 226 0.000062664 35 191 -69%
1971 185 0.000053899 46 139 -50%
1972 121 0.000038498 27 94 -55%
1973 117 0.000038782 30 87 -49%
1974 81 0.000026645 28 53 -31%
1975 78 0.000025833 17 61 -56%
1976 65 0.000021422 15 50 -54%
1977 58 0.000018259 16 42 -45%
1978 53 0.000016699 15 38 -43%
1979 45 0.000013526 13 32 -42%
1980 36 0.000010451 10 26 -44%
1981 32 0.00000925 32 -100%
1982 36 0.000010262 10 26 -44%
1983 36 0.000010395 12 24 -33%
1984 28 0.000008026 7 21 -50%
1985 27 0.000007565 6 21 -56%
1986 30 0.000008434 10 20 -33%
1987 26 0.000007211 6 20 -54%
1988 21 0.000005683 21 -100%
1989 24 0.000006243 6 18 -50%
1990 20 0.00000506 20 -100%
1991 32 0.000008215 6 26 -63%
1992 21 0.000005467 21 -100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 -100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 -100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 -100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 -100%

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