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Baby name

Pat

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60% girls / 40% boys

Origin of the name

Pat is a short form of Patricia or Patrick.

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Short-lived name

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1941 was its best year: 1,900 births, or 1 baby in 1,282. Since then, the name has fallen 99%, to about 0 births a year. No births recorded in 2025: the name is no longer given, or too rarely to be published. 40% of all babies named Pat since 1880 were born in the 1940s.
40,123births since 1880
1940sgeneration
No. 134rank at its peak, in 1941

Where babies named Pat are born

1941

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The darker the blue, the more common Pat is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Pat is most common in Oklahoma (2.3 times), Utah (2.3) and Washington (2.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

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Girls and boys, decade by decade

DecadeGirlsBoys
1880s0%100%
1890s4%96%
1900s17%83%
1910s26%74%
1920s48%52%
1930s74%26%
1940s75%25%
1950s52%48%
1960s32%68%
1970s24%76%
1980s23%77%
1990s5%95%
2000s0%100%
2010s0%100%