Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Patsy

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

Endangered Down 99.6% from peak

Peak era

1941

Peak rank proxy

4,788

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Silent Generation

1880Peak 19412024

Peak year

1941

Decline from peak

99.6%

2024

All-time

119,425

Patsy once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1941, when 4,788 girls were named Patsy.

In 2024, only 17 girls were given the name.

Down 99.6% from its peak.

All told, about 119,425 Americans have been named Patsy and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.6% from peak

19414,788 girls named Patsy

202417 girls named Patsy

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