Patrick
About 689,424 American babies have been named Patrick since 1880, most of them around 1964. In 2025 it ranked 235th. About 551,000 Patricks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Patrick boys named Patrick
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 689,424
- Estimated living today
- 551,000
- Median age today
- 46
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 30th
- Rank in 2025
- 235th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 2,834 / 686,590
How old the living Patricks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 689,424 babies given the name since 1880, about 551,000 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 42,000 of them are children and 100,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Middle English Patrick, from Latin Patricius (“patrician”), the name of an early Irish saint.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Patricks
- Patrick Modiano (born 1945)French writer
- Patrick White (1912–1990)English-born Australian writer
- Patrick Swayze (1952–2009)American actor, producer, singer and dancer
- Patrick Stewart (born 1940)British actor
- Patrick Blackett (1897–1974)British physicist
- Neil Patrick Harris (born 1973)American actor
- Patrick Vieira (born 1976)French association football player and coach
- Patrick Süskind (born 1949)German writer and screenwriter
People named Patrick with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Patrick is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Patrick is most concentrated in Alaska (1.9×), Hawaii (1.6×), Vermont (1.6×), Montana (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular boys’ names the year Patrick peaked:
Patrick elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Patrick | 395,210 | 2nd |
| Ireland boys | Patrick | 50,100 | 2nd |
| Austria boys | Patrick | 23,068 | 2nd |
| England and Wales boys | Patrick | 17,934 | 66th |
| New Zealand boys | Patrick | 6,320 | 49th |
| Denmark boys | Patrick | 5,981 | 24th |
| Scotland boys | Patrick | 3,631 | 67th |
| Italy boys | Patrick | 3,470 | — |
| Norway boys | Patrick | 3,250 | 67th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Patrick | 2,697 | 19th |
| Switzerland boys | Patrick | 1,804 | 24th |
| Poland boys | Patrick | 1,421 birth registrations | 114th |
| Belgium boys | Patrick | 527 | 285th |
| France girls | Patrick | 5 | 1,814th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Patrick: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Patrick | 1,456 | 0.117% | 22nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Patrick | 220 | 0.051% | 76th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Patrick | 125 | 0.192% | 20th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Patrick | 3 | 0.081% | 22nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Patrick is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.19% of children were given it – 118 of them.
Patrick: rank by region
In 2025, Patrick was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Patrick | 409 | 14 |
| Brussels | Patrick | 225 | 6 |
In 2001, Patrick was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Patrick | 10 | 45 |
In 2023, Patrick was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podkarpackie | Patrick | 138 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Patrick appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (178th) and Brussels-Capital Region (225th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Patrick by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 15 | 348th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Patrick among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Patrick | 31,877 | 40,055 |
| Finland boys | Patrick | 1,334 | 2,526 |
| the Netherlands girls | Patrick | — | 275 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Patrick lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,062 men called Patrick were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Patrick | 132 | 0.212 | 414 |
| Girona | Patrick | 88 | 0.211 | 434 |
| Tarragona | Patrick | 79 | 0.180 | 496 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Patrick | 178 | 0.177 | 507 |
| Málaga | Patrick | 130 | 0.149 | 451 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Patrick | 45 | 0.144 | 574 |
Listed in 41 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 11 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Patrick against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.