How Many People Are Named Pat?
people named Pat are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 10,640 people in the US has this name
Based on 66,855 babies named Pat in Social Security records from 1880 to 2014, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,544 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of PATRICK or PATRICIA. A famous bearer of this name was Pat Garrett (1850-1908), the sheriff who shot Billy the Kid.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Pat, 61.4% were girls and 38.6% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1880s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 5.1% in the 1990s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Pat alive today is about 73 years old, and 92% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 65 and 82 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Pat first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1947, to 2,544 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2014.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2014
🏆 Rank History
Pat has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #134, in 1940 to 1941. Among boys, its best rank was #240, in 1937.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #134 (1940 to 1941) | #240 (1937) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #160 in the 1940s | #318 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Pat alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Pat were born in California than in any other state: about 3,667 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Pat was given 2.6 times as often in New Mexico, 2.6 times in Washington and 2.3 times in Oregon.
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