Patsie

Girls' name

Pat with the suffix -sie

Patsie has been given to 560 babies in the U.S. since 1898. 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 1940, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Patsie, 1960

1 in 519,000

Patsie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Patsie: meaning, origin, and history

Pat with the suffix -sie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Patsie means

Patsie is formed from Pat with the suffix -sie.

Origin, language, and formation

Patsie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pat and Patricia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 560 girls were recorded with the name Patsie between 1898 and 1960. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1940; its best national rank was #1,581 in 1940.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Patsie?

Patsie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1960, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1960
1 in 519,000
8 of 4,153,934 births
Among girls only
1 in 253,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1960
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
359,912 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Patsie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1960 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 359,912 children born in 1960 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Patsie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Patsies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Patsie was born before 1938 — so the typical Patsie is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
96
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1930s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Patsie 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1940 (25)
Years since peak
85
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,581
1940

Spellings of Patsie

Patsie is not the most common spelling — Katie is, with 30.2% against Patsie's 0.07%.

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 Patsie is used

Across 1910–2025, Patsie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,353,146 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Kentucky1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Patsie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Patsie around the world

Where Patsie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Patsie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,581
1940
Peak year
1940
25 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
1960
All-time count
560
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Patsie

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

Sibling names for Patsie

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

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