Entry № 8029 · English origin

Patsy Patsy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAT-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Noble (Patsy Cline; Patsy Mink, first woman of color in Congress)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "noble (patsy cline; patsy mink, first woman of color in congress)".

Patsy is a 19th-century English diminutive of Patricia — from the Latin patricius ("noble, of noble birth"). Patsy Kensit — British actress.

Noble (Patsy Cline; Patsy Mink, first woman of color in Congress) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Patsy
Transliteration
Patsy
Pronunciation
/ ˈpæt.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Patsy stands.

Patsy 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.

Patsys before her.

Real people
Patsy Cline
American country singer.
1932 – 1963
Patsy Mink
First woman of color in US Congress.
1927 – 2002
In fiction
Patsy
Absolutely Fabulous.
1992

Names connected to Patsy.

The number behind Patsy.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Patsy reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.