Patty

Where Patty comes from

From Pat + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Patty
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1946
    Patty Duke born
    American actress
  3. 1950
    Patty Murray born
    United States Senator from Washington since 2013
  4. 1959
    Peak, #140
    3,113 babies named Patty — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #256.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
  • A male given name, a diminutive of the male given name Patrick.
Namesakes
  • Patty Duke · American actress, 1946–2016
  • Patty Murray · United States Senator from Washington since 2013, born 1950
  • Patty Hearst · American kidnapping victim, born 1954
  • Patty Jenkins · American film director, born 1971
  • Patty Schnyder · Swiss tennis player, born 1978

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.