Recorded 1880–2014 · United States
Pat was most popular in 1947, when 2,544 American babies were given the name — ranking #246 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 66,855 people named Pat.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Pat is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 125 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 2014.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 66,855 American births named Pat between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 32,799 are estimated to be alive today.
Pat was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Pat is out of use. It averaged 5 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Pat is a unisex name — 60.0% of the 66,855 Americans given it were girls and 40.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 1960 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 32,799 Americans named Pat are alive today — 49% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 76 years old, and half are between 66 and 83.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org