The first name Patrick goes back to the Roman name suffix ‘patricius’, which means something like ‘patrician’ or also ‘noble’.
Patrick is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Patrick 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 boys names, Patrick ranks 168. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 13 were named Patrick. In total, there are currently 670,144 people – children, adults and seniors – named Patrick living in the United States, which is approximately 0.20 % of the entire population.
The first name Patrick goes back to the Roman name suffix ‘patricius’, which means something like ‘patrician’ or also ‘noble’.
What is a patrician? A patrician was a member of an upper social class in ancient Rome and later in some cities of Italy during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. They held great political power and wealth.
Patrick is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Patrick. This means that several boys named Patrick have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Patrick has reached its best rank of #30 multiple times, most recently in 1968. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Patrick one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Patrick was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Patrick. Because: There are men and boys named Patrick in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, just 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Patrick is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular male first names, for example in Hawaii, where Patrick ranks on position 33. The greatest chance of meeting Patrick, however, is in Alaska, where one in 142 boys and men bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 249 men and boys and in Utah, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 437 men and boys for their name before you once get Patrick 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 boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Patrick has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Patrick 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 Patrick, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Tiger
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Koala
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Patrick
Patrick
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
T
R
I
C
K
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
K
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. Patrick sounds like this:
