Girl
Patricia
As a girl's name, Patricia traces back to Latin, where it is understood to mean "Noble". It belongs mostly to the 1950s at this point. These days, it is about as mainstream as a name gets. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
LatinNoble
LatinPatrician
Births by decade
1900s
1,336
1910s
9,726
1920s
74,945
1930s
221,362
1940s
412,635
1950s
460,643
1960s
231,873
1970s
81,542
1980s
45,497
1990s
24,247
2000s
9,324
2010s
3,134
Peaked in the 1950s · 1,576,264 total U.S. births since 1900