first name
PATRICA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 18,427 people named Patrica, 78.2% reported their origin as White, 10.5% as Black and 8.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Patrica peaked in 1962, when 307 babies got the name.
At least 9,157 babies have been given the name since 1911. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Patrica by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #1,047. The largest share of babies named Patrica, 48.7%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
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 Patrica is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Patrica has been most common in Mississippi (2.4×), Arkansas (1.9×), and Tennessee (1.8×), and least common in Iowa (0.53×).
5,688 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.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Patrica, most common first.
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