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Girl

Patti

As a girl's name, Patti is understood to mean "noble". It had its heyday in the 1950s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

EtymologyDiminutive of Patricia
EtymologyMeaning "noble"
Births by decade
1900s
11
1910s
89
1920s
501
1930s
1,541
1940s
4,478
1950s
20,626
1960s
14,354
1970s
2,373
1980s
535
1990s
133
2000s
51
2010s
25
Peaked in the 1950s · 44,717 total U.S. births since 1900