Patty

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Patty is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 140th, in 1959.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 70.00% of girls
Peak year: 19593,113 births
Best rank: #140in 1959
Since 1880: 62,448people given the name

Babies named Patty, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

62,448 girls have been named Patty in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 3,113 births — 0.15% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 3,113 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1960s alone account for 28%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Patty
1880s	27
1890s	32
1900s	82
1910s	339
1920s	2,764
1930s	9,625
1940s	11,417
1950s	16,106
1960s	17,521
1970s	3,058
1980s	894
1990s	351
2000s	157
2010s	62
2020s	13

In 1959, its biggest year

Patty was the 140th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.

Names that rose and fell with Patty

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.