Patty

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Dutch

Meaning

Patty is an English given name that originated as a rhyming diminutive form of names such as Martha via the diminutive Mattie, much in the same way that Peggy was derived as a rhyming variant of Meg or Meggie, an English diminutive of Margaret, and Polly was originally derived as a rhyming variant of Molly, an English diminutive of Mary.

From Wikipedia

Patty first appears in the data in 1954 and has been recorded in 55 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1989 with 122 babies (rank #142 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Patty

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Patty yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

1,379
Total babies (all years)
55
Years in the data
122
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19541#1,220
19551#1,234
19561#1,257
19571#1,266
19581#1,287
19595#862
19602#1,166
19612#1,181
19621#1,363
19631#1,383
19641#1,369
19652#1,218
19662#1,233
19675#958
19685#983
19699#790
19704#1,046
197110#746
197216#589
197315#574
197421#477
197519#494
197622#444
197710#682
197824#420
197927#393
198039#323
198152#271
198231#374
198347#280
198449#274
198551#280
1986118#151
198773#218
198883#192
1989122#142
1990112#162
1991102#170
199273#230
199346#325
199437#377
199530#418
199629#445
199713#707
199813#716
199914#678
200013#726
20018#904
200210#811
20031#1,711
20041#1,703
20051#1,752
20061#1,724
20071#1,691
20081#1,656