Feminine dossier · first seen 1897

Pat

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Pat
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1941

Peak rank proxy

1,900

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1897Peak 19412024

Peak year

1941

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

40,122

Pat has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1941, when 1,900 girls were named Pat.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 40,122 Americans have been named Pat and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1897.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

19411,900 girls named Pat

20240 (extinct) girls named Pat

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