Patricia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin, ‘noble’; feminine form of Patrick, associated with St Patricia of Naples
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pətɹɪʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Patricia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 15th most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 159(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 163
- CNChina≈1 in 191
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #44 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 637 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 159 (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,300,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin, ‘noble’; feminine form of Patrick, associated with St Patricia of Naples.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Patricia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈7,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 191 | — | Patricia | 45 |
| US United States | #21 | 1,189,825 | 1 in 280 | 1.2M | Patricia | 637 |
| BR Brazil | #47 | 500,893 | 1 in 423 | 531K | Patricia | 248 |
| GB United Kingdom | #32 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 199 | — | Patricia | 327 |
| ID Indonesia | #497 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Patricia | 163 |
| CL Chile | #21 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 163 | — | Patricia | 167 |
| PT Portugal | #29 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 204 | listed | Patricia | 189 |
| IE Ireland | #15 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 159 | — | Patricia | 157 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Patricia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Feminine form of Patrick; noble, wellborn
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Swedish, Patricia är en latinsk femininform till Patricius (→ Patrik). Namnet har kommit till Norden via engelskan. Patrycja är en polsk form. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 16 april.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Féminin de Patrice/Patrick, du latin Patricius « patricien, noble »; fête liée à saint Patrick.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Féminin de Patricius, du latin patricius, « noble ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Féminin de Patrice; du latin, « patricien ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Patricia Nealb. 1926USAmerican stage and film actress (1926-2010)
- Grace Kellyb. 1929USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and Princess consort of Monaco (1929–1982)
- Nancy Pelosib. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (born 1940)
- Patti Smithb. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)
- Candice Bergenb. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1946)
- Mary McAleeseb. 1951IEnot in their usual name8th President of Ireland
- Patricia Rommelb. 1956FRFrench film editor
- Helen Sharmanb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameBritish chemist who became the first Briton in space
- Patricia Kaasb. 1966FRFrench singer
- Patricia Arquetteb. 1968USAmerican actress (born 1968)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 139 sources across 73 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2M | #19 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 531K | #69 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 529K | #9 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 501K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 499K | #39 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.8K | #39 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 955 | #19 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 167 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Patricia?
- In the etymology graph, Patrice, Patty and Patrizia are forms of the same name in other languages; Trish is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Patricia mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin, ‘noble’; feminine form of Patrick, associated with St Patricia of Naples. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How common is the name Patricia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,189,825 people named Patricia in 2020, about 1 in 280 residents.
- How common is Patricia compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Patricia is the 15th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
- Is Patricia a male or female name?
- Patricia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Patricia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 million people named Patricia in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patricia.
- How do you pronounce Patricia?
- A machine transcription gives /pətɹɪʃə/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Patricia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/patriciaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Patricia” — the 15th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.