Patsey
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Patsey has been given to 512 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 1942, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Patsey, 1965
1 in 604,000
Patsey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Patsey?
Patsey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1965
- 1 in 604,000
- 6 of 3,625,243 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 294,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1965
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,806 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Patsey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,806 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Patsey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Patseys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Patsey was born before 1943 — so the typical Patsey is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 34.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 144
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (177).
Is Patsey 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1942 (26)
- Years since peak
- 83
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.1% average annual change
Spellings of Patsey
Patsey is not the most common spelling — Patsy is, with 30.6% against Patsey's 0.13%.
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.
Patsey around the world
Where Patsey 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.
- South Australia1948–1948#369in 1948
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Patsey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Patsey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Patsey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.