Patricia derived from the Latin name Patricius for ‘nobleman’. Previously, Patricius was a high honorary title given only to the emperor’s closest confidants. The name Patrick has the same origin.
Patricia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Patricia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Patricia ranks 798. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Patricia. In total, there are currently 1,559,159 people – children, adults and seniors – named Patricia living in the United States, which is approximately 0.47 % of the entire population.
Patricia derived from the Latin name Patricius for ‘nobleman’. Previously, Patricius was a high honorary title given only to the emperor’s closest confidants. The name Patrick has the same origin.
In the English-speaking world,... Patricia is used since the 18th century.
Regardless of where you live in the US, chances are you know someone called Patricia. Because: There are women and girls named Patricia in every state in the USA. If this does not sound particularly spectacular to you, you should know that of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Patricia is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 10 of the most popular female first names, for example in Illinois, where Patricia ranks on place 2, making it one of the most common female first names in the entire state. The greatest chance of meeting Patricia, however, is in Rhode Island, where one in 65 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 99, women and girls and in Utah, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 204 women and girls for their name before you once get Patricia as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, P is by no means the rarest initial. While A, S and M are the most common first letters of girls' names, Q, X and U are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With eight letters, the name Patricia is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.6% of all girls’ names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a P, Patricia is currently the most common.
If your name is Patricia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Patricia, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Tiger
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Patricia
Patricia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
T
R
I
C
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
A
T
R
I
C
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Patricia sounds like this:
