Patty
Patty is a girl's name that peaked in 1959, when it was the 140th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 14,942nd. About 42,000 Pattys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Patty boys named Patty
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 62,699
- Estimated living today
- 42,000
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 140th
- Rank in 2025
- 14,942nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 62,452 / 247
How old the living Pattys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 62,699 babies given the name since 1880, about 42,000 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 110 of them are children and 25,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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.
Notable Pattys
- Patty Duke (1946–2016)American actress
- Patty Murray (born 1950)United States Senator from Washington since 2013
- Patty Hearst (born 1954)American kidnapping victim
- Patty Jenkins (born 1971)American film director
- Patty Schnyder (born 1978)Swiss tennis player
- Patty Mills (born 1988)Australian basketball player
- Patty Pravo (born 1948)Italian singer
- Patty Aubery (born 1965)American writer
People named Patty with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Patty is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Patty is most concentrated in West Virginia (4.6×), South Dakota (2.5×), Nebraska (2.5×), Indiana (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular girls’ names the year Patty peaked:
Patty elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Patty | 135 | 1,202nd |
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.
Related names
Patty against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.