PATRICIA  

Gender: F
Origin: Latin
Meaning: "noble, patrician"

Popularity in 2008: #498

Patricia still sounds patrician, though its scores of nicknames definitely don't. Wildly popular from the forties (Number 4 in 1948) through the sixties, it has been fading ever since.

Nicknames & Variations:
Patrea, Paddy, Trisa, Trish, Patsy, Patrisha, Patty, Pat, Patie, Patria, Patti, Patee, Pati, Tricia, Patrisia, Trisha, Trishia, Trisia

International Variations:
Patrice (French) Pádraigín (Irish Gaelic) Patrizia (Italian) Patryka (Polish) Patrika (Scandinavian) Padrika (Slavic)

Patricia is being discussed in our message boards:

• Initial Game
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• Compromise and pass it on!
• Spanish/Latin name?

Read Nameberry blog posts about Patricia:

• ROYAL NAMES: Beyond Elizabeth & William
• THE LOST LETTER "P": Whatever happenned to Peter, Paul and Paula?
• PRESIDENT'S DAY NAMES: All the Presidents' children
• GOLDEN GIRL NAMES
• GUERNSEY NAMES:Interesting Combos from the Channel Islands