Patti

Where Patti comes from

From Pat + -i.
— Wiktionary's entry for Patti
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1944
    Patti LaBelle born
    American singer and actress
  3. 1949
    Patti LuPone born
    American actress and singer
  4. 1958
    Peak, #137
    3,115 babies named Patti — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #234.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Patricia; a mid-20th-century spelling of Patty.
Namesakes
  • Patti LaBelle · American singer and actress, born 1944
  • Patti LuPone · American actress and singer, born 1949
  • Patti Austin · American singer, born 1950
  • Patti Davis · American actress and author, born 1952
  • Patti Scialfa · American singer, born 1953

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.