Patrik
Masculine · “noble”
Patrik is the ordinary spelling in Sweden, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and it is also what an American family produces by swapping a c for a k. The record holds both. The prayer most associated with the saint was written long after him.
How old is the name Patrik?
Patrik first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Patrik alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 700 people named Patrik are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Patrik most popular?
Patrik peaked in 1992, reaching #2467 nationally. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
From patricius to Patrik
The story of Patrik
The long protective prayer known as Saint Patrick's Breastplate — binding to itself the strength of heaven, the light of sun, the splendor of fire — is genuinely old and is not his. The Irish text dates from around the eighth century, three hundred years after him, and belongs to a well-attested genre: the lorica, a prayer that invokes protection over the parts of the body one by one, of which several survive in Irish and Latin. The legend attached to it says he sang it on the way to confront a king at Tara and that he and his companions appeared to the watching soldiers as deer, which is why the Irish name for it means the deer's cry. The version most people know in English is a Victorian verse translation. It is a very good poem with an incorrect attribution, which describes a large amount of what is called early Irish.
Meaning
noble; of the patrician class
From the Latin patricius, which described a member of Rome's hereditary aristocracy. The k spelling is standard in several Scandinavian and Slavic languages, where the letter c is either absent or does a different job, and is a respelling in American use.
How the name formed
- patricius
- Patrick
- Patrik
Related forms: Patrik · Patrik · Pádraig · Patricio · Patrice
Pronouncing Patrik
PAT-rik
Two syllables with the stress at the front. Swedish and Czech say it much the same way, which is unusual for a name spelled identically in three unrelated languages.
Nicknames for Patrik
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1967
- Most boys named
- 199229 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2467reached in 1992
- Change vs 2023
- −14.3%6 in 2024, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Patrik in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Patrik in Swedish — same name
- Patrik in Czech — same name
- Pádraig in Irish — same name
- Patricio in Spanish — same name
- Patrice in French — same name
Patriks among us
people named Patrik are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Patrik sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Pat comes off it at once and works for a child of either sex.
- The spelling is standard in several European countries, so it travels.
- Two syllables with front stress is easy and quick.
- Patrick is the standard spelling in English and will be written for it.
- The k marks it as either European or deliberately respelled, and strangers will guess.
- The name carries a national association that arrives before the child does.
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Frequently asked
- How many Patriks are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Patrik are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Patrik in 2025?
- Patrik is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Patrik with classmates?
- Patrik will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More P names
The most-given names starting with P, all years combined.
Paul#262 · Patrick#235 · Peter#187 · Philip#527 · Phillip#651 · Parker#102 · Preston#299 · Pedro#455
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