Patsy
Patsy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 52nd, in 1936, 1941.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19414,788 births
- Best rank
- #52first in 1936
- Since 1880
- 127,138people given the name
The story in the numbers
119,425 girls have been named Patsy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1941, with 4,788 births — 0.40% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 17 births in 2024, against 4,788 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1940s alone account for 34%. It has spent 96 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 19 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 7,713 boys have also been given it, 6.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Patsy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 193 | |
| 1890s | 229 | |
| 1900s | 385 | |
| 1910s | 1,206 | |
| 1920s | 8,228 | |
| 1930s | 36,475 | |
| 1940s | 40,280 | |
| 1950s | 21,734 | |
| 1960s | 6,919 | |
| 1970s | 1,746 | |
| 1980s | 844 | |
| 1990s | 690 | |
| 2000s | 257 | |
| 2010s | 150 | |
| 2020s | 89 |
In 1941, its biggest year
Patsy was the 52nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1941 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Carol and Linda. See all of 1941.
Names that rose and fell with Patsy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marolynpeak 1946
- Marilynpeak 1947
- Joycepeak 1942
- Patpeak 1941
- Marlyspeak 1937
- Merlenepeak 1940
- Deloriespeak 1941
- Beverleypeak 1938
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.