Patsy

Where Patsy comes from

From the clipping of Patricia or Patrick + -sy (hypocoristic suffix).
— Wiktionary's entry for Patsy
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #435 among girls — 15 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1923
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1927
    Patsy Mink born
    American politician
  4. 1932
    Patsy Cline born
    American country singer
  5. 1941
    Peak, #52
    4,788 babies named Patsy — more than any year before or since.
  6. 1954
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #155.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Patrick.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Martha.
Namesakes
  • Patsy Cline · American country singer, 1932–1963
  • Patsy Mink · American politician, 1927–2002
  • Patsy Kelly · American actress, 1910–1981
  • Patsy Ruth Miller · American actress, 1904–1995
  • Patsy Elsener · American diver, 1929–2019

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.