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Baby name
Patrick
Boy
Origin of the name
Patrick comes from the Latin Patricius, “patrician,” a member of the Roman nobility. Saint Patrick, who brought Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century, made it the emblematic name of the Irish.
Classic name
686,590births since 1880
1960sgeneration
No. 30rank at its peak, in 1964
Where babies named Patrick are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Patrick is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Patrick is most common in Alaska (1.9 times), Hawaii (1.6) and Montana (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
One letter apart
- Patric 3,040
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