Patrica
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Patrica has been given to 9,157 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1962, with 302 recorded.
Babies named Patrica, 2009
1 in 637,000
Patrica over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Patrica?
Patrica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 637,000
- 6 of 3,820,315 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 306,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 441,341 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Patrica sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Patrica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Patricas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Patrica was born before 1958 — so the typical Patrica is around 67 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 26.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 6,596
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (2,457).
Is Patrica rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1962 (302)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.5% average annual change
Spellings of Patrica
Patrica is not the most common spelling — Patricia is, with 89.2% against Patrica's 0.52%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Patrica is used
Across 1910–2025, Patrica was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 26,146 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 12,500
- 2Arkansas1 in 14,286
- 3Tennessee1 in 14,286
- 4Alabama1 in 16,667
- 5Georgia1 in 16,667
- 6Kentucky1 in 16,667
- 7Ohio1 in 16,667
- 8South Carolina1 in 16,667
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Patrica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Patrica around the world
Where Patrica ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Ireland1974–1982#523in 1982
- Canada1991–1991#2,131in 1991
- South Australia1944–1995#712in 1995
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Patrica by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Patrica
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Patrica
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Patrica, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Patrica
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.