Patrisha
Feminine · “of the patricians”
Patrisha writes with sh what the standard spelling writes with ci, and the name underneath is one of the oldest social distinctions in Europe. A patrician was not a rich man or a noble one in the modern sense. He was a man who could name his father — a member of the founding families of Rome, and the word says so.
How old is the name Patrisha?
Patrisha first appears in US birth records in 1944 — 81 years ago. The typical Patrisha alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 1,000 people named Patrisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Patrisha most popular?
Patrisha peaked in 1982, reaching #1991 nationally. See the whole 1982 chart.
Where it comes from
From Latin patricius, built on the word for father to Patrisha
The story of Patrisha
The name was rare in English until a princess made it fashionable. Patricia of Connaught was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, a working watercolourist who exhibited under her own name, and an unusually popular figure in the years before the First World War; when a Canadian regiment was raised in a hurry in 1914 it was named after her, and she designed its colors herself and later gave up her royal title to marry a naval officer. The name went from unusual to everywhere across the English-speaking world within a generation of her becoming well known, and the timing is not a coincidence anyone has managed to argue away.
Meaning
of the patricians
The Latin adjective is built directly on the word for father. In the early Republic the patricians were the families who could trace themselves to the men who had first sat in the Senate; everyone else, however wealthy, was a plebeian, and the distinction was hereditary and unbudgeable. Two centuries of political struggle went into prying it open. The feminine form of the adjective is the name, which means it has been in continuous use for the whole of that history and for two thousand years afterwards.
How the name formed
- Latin patricius, built on the word for father
- Patricia as its feminine form
- rare in English until the early twentieth century
- a royal namesake makes it fashionable before the First World War
- Patrisha appears among the American respellings
Related forms: Patricia · Patrizia · Patrycja · Patricia
Pronouncing Patrisha
puh-TRISH-uh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. This spelling writes the middle consonant the way English usually writes that sound, which the standard version does not — the ci in Patricia is a Latin ending that English reads as sh out of habit rather than logic.
Nicknames for Patrisha
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
- 1944
- Most girls named
- 198252 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1991reached in 1982
- Change vs 2015
- −16.7%5 in 2017, from 6
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.
Patrisha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Patricia in Spanish — same name
- Patrizia in Italian — same name
- Patrycja in Polish — same name
- Patricia in English — spelling variant
Patrishas among us
people named Patrisha 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
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Fashion outlook
Patrisha 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
- The spelling makes the pronunciation completely obvious, which the standard form does not.
- Trish and Tricia are both immediately available and both are current.
- The name has two thousand years behind it and a very good royal story in the middle.
- Patricia is enormously commoner and this spelling will be corrected on every document.
- It reads to many people as a phonetic rewriting rather than a variant, which some will treat as an error.
- The full name is closely associated with the middle of the last century.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Patrisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Patrisha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Patrisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with P, all years combined.
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