Patrik is a male first name.
Recently, the name Patrik has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Patrik. That means that a boy named Patrik is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Patrik.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Patrik. Boys named Patrik have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,214 Patrik ranked higher than ever before in 1992. By comparison, there have been 96 years in which the first name Patrik has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Patrik only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Patrik was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Meeting a man or boy named Patrik is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Patrik can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Patrik. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Patrik living in one state or another. (If your name is Patrik and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Patrik is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00010% of all male residents are called Patrik – that’s just one in 1,020,730! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 16 men going by that name. So, if your name is Patrik, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
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 six letters, the name Patrik is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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 Patrik 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 Patrik, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Tiger
Rocket
Igloo
Koala
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Patrik
Patrik
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
T
R
I
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
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. Patrik sounds like this:
