How popular is “Patricia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Patricia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Patricia” 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 “Patricia” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Patricia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Patricia” 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
1884	6	0.000024645	6		100%
1885	5	0.000020759	5		100%
1886	8	0.000031334	8		100%
1887	10	0.000040422	10		100%
1888	12	0.00004007	12		100%
1889	17	0.000058835	17		100%
1890	11	0.000036496	11		100%
1891	12	0.00004186	12		100%
1892	21	0.000062804	21		100%
1893	28	0.000086095	28		100%
1894	36	0.000106292	36		100%
1895	35	0.000099709	35		100%
1896	37	0.000103501	37		100%
1897	49	0.000141228	49		100%
1898	47	0.000123212	47		100%
1899	55	0.00016213	55		100%
1900	87	0.000193223	87		100%
1901	68	0.000196639	68		100%
1902	85	0.00021979	85		100%
1903	79	0.00020724	79		100%
1904	124	0.000307322	124		100%
1905	121	0.00028543	121		100%
1906	157	0.000366436	157		100%
1907	177	0.000380326	177		100%
1908	205	0.000419524	205		100%
1909	233	0.000455769	233		100%
1910	316	0.000534949	316		100%
1911	325	0.000504441	325		100%
1912	504	0.000510089	504		100%
1913	588	0.0005171	588		100%
1914	656	0.000463164	656		100%
1915	895	0.000488424	895		100%
1916	1078	0.000557274	1078		100%
1917	1447	0.000721066	1441	6	99%
1918	1765	0.000812948	1760	5	99%
1919	2152	0.001019787	2144	8	99%
1920	2509	0.00110888	2502	7	99%
1921	3390	0.001452128	3380	10	99%
1922	3910	0.001708053	3902	8	100%
1923	4800	0.002084708	4800		100%
1924	6975	0.002928691	6957	18	99%
1925	8119	0.003479618	8096	23	99%
1926	8615	0.003752333	8586	29	99%
1927	10592	0.004566781	10554	38	99%
1928	12363	0.005468084	12331	32	99%
1929	13667	0.006234488	13624	43	99%
1930	15803	0.007107941	15751	52	99%
1931	16516	0.007848362	16470	46	99%
1932	18035	0.008542167	17990	45	100%
1933	18708	0.009356587	18632	76	99%
1934	20912	0.010069259	20844	68	99%
1935	22965	0.010988564	22879	86	99%
1936	24016	0.011559614	23916	100	99%
1937	26936	0.012642032	26838	98	99%
1938	27665	0.012503536	27558	107	99%
1939	29811	0.013529288	29701	110	99%
1940	32807	0.014247281	32667	140	99%
1941	37058	0.01520999	36904	154	99%
1942	39623	0.01450426	39464	159	99%
1943	39767	0.014088988	39621	146	99%
1944	36987	0.01374941	36872	115	99%
1945	35942	0.013548141	35843	99	99%
1946	46409	0.014524113	46298	111	100%
1947	51398	0.014268019	51278	120	100%
1948	46235	0.013391675	46140	95	100%
1949	46428	0.013323095	46325	103	100%
1950	48028	0.013709133	47944	84	100%
1951	56574	0.015357765	56446	128	100%
1952	53202	0.01400788	53098	104	100%
1953	51148	0.013272632	51021	127	100%
1954	49250	0.012372171	49149	101	100%
1955	46317	0.01153576	46226	91	100%
1956	43432	0.010533983	43330	102	100%
1957	39373	0.009369743	39282	91	100%
1958	38072	0.009209696	37966	106	99%
1959	35311	0.008492321	35224	87	100%
1960	32175	0.007745891	32105	70	100%
1961	28966	0.006992732	28889	77	99%
1962	26612	0.006594683	26532	80	99%
1963	25446	0.00642868	25374	72	99%
1964	26174	0.00673268	26090	84	99%
1965	23617	0.006514227	23553	64	99%
1966	20192	0.005809553	20111	81	99%
1967	17817	0.005248171	17753	64	99%
1968	15873	0.00469836	15804	69	99%
1969	15023	0.004322764	14958	65	99%
1970	13477	0.003736849	13406	71	99%
1971	11520	0.003356296	11469	51	99%
1972	9648	0.003069685	9600	48	99%
1973	8529	0.002827086	8477	52	99%
1974	8084	0.002659211	8036	48	99%
1975	7082	0.002345504	7053	29	99%
1976	6052	0.001994529	6017	35	99%
1977	5936	0.001868727	5904	32	99%
1978	5532	0.001742983	5498	34	99%
1979	5688	0.001709648	5650	38	99%
1980	5349	0.001552908	5310	39	99%
1981	5311	0.001535248	5284	27	99%
1982	5212	0.001485763	5168	44	98%
1983	4957	0.001431278	4926	31	99%
1984	4509	0.001292438	4476	33	99%
1985	4437	0.001243167	4402	35	98%
1986	4285	0.00120464	4246	39	98%
1987	3951	0.001095791	3913	38	98%
1988	3842	0.001039771	3799	43	98%
1989	3651	0.000949681	3604	47	97%
1990	3618	0.000915375	3579	39	98%
1991	3437	0.000882353	3419	18	99%
1992	2961	0.000770838	2950	11	99%
1993	2677	0.000710027	2659	18	99%
1994	2374	0.000638575	2363	11	99%
1995	2169	0.000592274	2161	8	99%
1996	1978	0.000542335	1970	8	99%
1997	1787	0.000492864	1781	6	99%
1998	1710	0.0004649	1704	6	99%
1999	1537	0.000416095	1532	5	99%
2000	1398	0.000369851	1393	5	99%
2001	1224	0.000326976	1224		100%
2002	1115	0.000298265	1115		100%
2003	1016	0.000267205	1011	5	99%
2004	997	0.000260932	997		100%
2005	880	0.000228878	880		100%
2006	781	0.000197412	776	5	99%
2007	728	0.000182105	728		100%
2008	630	0.000160278	630		100%
2009	565	0.000147899	565		100%
2010	479	0.000129609	479		100%
2011	431	0.000117831	431		100%
2012	396	0.000108275	396		100%
2013	419	0.000114931	419		100%
2014	379	0.000102256	379		100%
2015	351	0.000094841	351		100%
2016	387	0.000105487	387		100%
2017	308	0.000086125	308		100%
2018	299	0.000085042	299		100%
2019	281	0.000080958	281		100%
2020	217	0.000064959	217		100%
2021	212	0.000062575	212		100%
2022	222	0.00006562	222		100%
2023	202	0.000061005	202		100%
2024	177	0.000053177	177		100%

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