Patriot

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Patriot has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2003, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Patriot, 2016

1 in 524,000

Patriot over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Patriot: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Patriot means

Patriot is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Patriot is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 36 boys were recorded with the name Patriot between 2002 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2003; its best national rank was #9,351 in 2003.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Patriot?

Patriot had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016: 1 in 524,000; 7 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only: 1 in 271,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 363,362 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Patriot sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Patriot. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Patriots were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Patriot was born before 2004 — so the typical Patriot is around 21 today.

Median birth year: 2004; About 21 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 36; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Patriot 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 2003 (7)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,351; 2003

Spellings of Patriot

Patriot is not the most common spelling — Patrick is, with 99.3% against Patriot's <0.01%.

Patrick99.3%686,590
Patric0.44%3,040
Patrice0.11%778
Patrik0.10%692
Patriot<0.01%36

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.

Patriot by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,351; 2003
Peak year: 2003; 7 that year
First recorded: 2002
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 36
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Patriot

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Patryck Patrich Patrell Patience Patick Patrica Patten Patricik Pattrick Patti Patrice Patron Pater Patch Paton Paten Patsey Pattie Patrisio Patrizio Patterson Pate Patton Patty

Sibling names for Patriot

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shreya Anastacia Delanie Abigale Ashtyn Hailie Kayli Sydnee

For a brother

Alexandre Jair Keven Kadin Estevan Dallin Keon Zakary

Explore around Patriot

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