Patricia
From the Latin for high birth, the patrician class. It's the foreign spelling next to Polish Patrycja, and it barely registers now: about 1,400 women carry it, and newborns almost never get it.
Patricia Pronunciation
Patricia is pronounced paht-REE-chah (/patˈrit͡ɕa/).
What Patricia means
Where Patricia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Patricia grows from Latin patricius, the word Rome used for its patrician families, the noble-born who sat in the Senate. It is the feminine of Patrick, and its plain sense stays close to that root: noble, patrician, or in Polish szlachetnie urodzona.
Naples keeps one bearer close. Saint Patricia, honored there since the medieval period, became a patron of the city, and her feast falls on the 25th of August. The name settled easily in English and in Spanish, where Patricia reads as native in both.
In Poland the name arrives dressed differently. Patrycja is the form a teacher reads from the class register, the spelling that lands on an official form at the urząd. Same Latin root, softer spelling. The old sense of high birth stays underneath, whether the child answers to Patricia or Patrycja.
How many people are named Patricia
1 in 16219 women in Poland is named Patricia. 1,390 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #825 among female names.
Patricia's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Patricia is most popular
Patricia is most popular in Lublin, 2005% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Patricia as a middle name
Patricia is a first name for 1,390 women in Poland and a middle name for another 792, a 64/36 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 267th, between Pamela (809) and Angela (771).
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#265 Manuela819
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#266 Pamela809
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#267 Patricia792
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#268 Angela771
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#269 Benedykta768