Patton
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 94.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1945 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,664since 1915
Patton over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | — | #2,288 | 62 | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #2,769 | 46 |
| 2022 | — | #2,517 | 54 | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #2,523 | 52 |
| 2020 | — | #2,366 | 56 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #2,228 | 62 |
| 2018 | — | #2,230 | 61 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,032 | 69 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #2,066 | 68 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #2,036 | 70 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #2,461 | 51 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,250 | 57 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #2,551 | 48 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #2,478 | 50 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,682 | 45 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #3,744 | 28 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #3,793 | 27 |
| 2006 | — | #3,524 | 29 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,846 | 37 | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | — | #3,044 | 31 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | — | #3,512 | 24 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,162 | 17 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,650 | 14 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,661 | 17 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,527 | 11 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,070 | 13 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,546 | 11 | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,818 | 9 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,592 | 10 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,287 | 12 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,143 | 12 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,772 | 15 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,988 | 13 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,231 | 6 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | #2,822 | 10 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
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| 1915 | — | #2,621 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Patton! It came in at #2,621, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1922, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Patton
- 952 spots since 2024 (#2,288 → #3,240)
- 874 spots since 2020 (#2,366 → #3,240)
- 1,204 spots since 2015 (#2,036 → #3,240)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1945 at #1,772 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1950, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,825 boys born in 2017 were named Patton (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,772 in 1945, was only 1 in 89,724 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.9% of all boys named Patton (581) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 9 | #2,621 (1915) | #2,621 |
| 1920s | 44 | #2,822 (1924) | #3,798 |
| 1930s | 12 | #3,175 (1938) | #3,226 |
| 1940s | 87 | #1,772 (1945) | #2,577 |
| 1950s | 76 | #2,287 (1953) | #3,117 |
| 1960s | 46 | #2,546 (1964) | #3,578 |
| 1970s | 71 | #3,070 (1978) | #4,078 |
| 1980s | 59 | #4,052 (1985) | #5,347 |
| 1990s | 114 | #3,661 (1993) | #5,577 |
| 2000s | 259 | #2,846 (2005) | #3,761 |
| 2010s | 581 | #2,032 (2017) | #2,301 |
| 2020s | 306 | #2,288 (2024) | #2,617 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Patton in 1945
Top boys' names in 1945
More about 1945
boys
1,345,855 boys got a published name in 1945; 1 in 89,724 of them was named Patton, which outranked 53.2% of the 3,783 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,697Vivian16
- #1,697Yale16
- #1,697Zollie16
- #1,772Patton15
- #1,772Adrain15
- #1,772Alexis15
- #1,772Almon15
- #1,852Adell14
- #1,852Alger14
- #1,852Americo14
Tied with 79 names at #1,772; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.