Entry № 8025 · Latin origin

Patricia Patricia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pah-TREE-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Noblewoman (peaked #4 in 1937; Patricia Highsmith, Pat Schroeder)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "noblewoman (peaked #4 in 1937; patricia highsmith, pat schroeder)".

Patricia is the Latin feminine of Patricius — from patricius, a member of the Roman aristocracy (the patrician class). Ripley. Saint Patricia of Naples (c. 665-685) was a Byzantine noblewoman who took religious vows to escape an arranged marriage.

Noblewoman (peaked #4 in 1937; Patricia Highsmith, Pat Schroeder) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Patricia
Transliteration
Patricia
Pronunciation
/ pəˈtrɪʃ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Patricia stands.

Patricia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Patricias before her.

Real people
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist.
1921 – 1995
Patricia Cornwell
American crime novelist.
born 1956
Pat Schroeder
US Congresswoman.
1940 – 2023
In fiction
Patricia
Strangers on a Train.
1950

Names connected to Patricia.

The number behind Patricia.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Patricia reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.