first name
PAT
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 40,768 people named Pat, 84% reported their origin as White, 5.4% as Black and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino. 59.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Pat peaked in 1947, when 2,544 babies got the name.
At least 66,855 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Pat by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #247. The largest share of babies named Pat, 48.1%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Pat is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Pat has been most common in Oklahoma (2.6×), New Mexico (2.6×), and Montana (2.5×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.19×).
60,333 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Pat
Spelled almost the same
4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Pat, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Pat ranks #33,022 of 156,621, with 744 people. See Pat as a last name
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