Is Patrice a male or female name?
Patrice is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 98% and male usage in France at 99%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 80%
- Sample size
- 177,153
- Confidence
- high
Patrice by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France FR | male | 99% | 138,835 | insee |
| United States US | female | 98% | 34,849 | ssa |
| Switzerland CH | male | 98% | 2,026 | bfs |
| Canada CA | male | 94% | 836 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 391 | cso |
| England and Wales GB | female | 86% | 124 | ons |
| Poland PL | male | 85% | 52 | pesel |
| Austria AT | male | 85% | 40 | statat |
Attested in 37 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · BF · BI · BJ · CA · CD · CF · CG · CH · CI · CM · DJ · ES · FR · GA · GB · GN · HT · IE · IN · LU · MC · MG · ML · MU · NE · PL · RW · SC · SE · SN · TD · TG · US · VU
Patrice over time
In the United States, 100% of the babies named Patrice in the 1920s were girls, against 85.4% in the 2010s. In France, 6.7% of the babies named Patrice in the 1900s were girls, against 0% in the 2000s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | — | 7% | 150 | |
| 1910s | — | 11% | 225 | |
| 1920s | 100% | 117 | 16% | 450 |
| 1930s | 100% | 227 | 10% | 765 |
| 1940s | 100% | 946 | 1% | 10,070 |
| 1950s | 100% | 10,296 | 1% | 45,565 |
| 1960s | 97% | 7,804 | 0% | 47,485 |
| 1970s | 96% | 5,525 | 0% | 26,490 |
| 1980s | 98% | 6,164 | 0% | 6,070 |
| 1990s | 96% | 2,697 | 0% | 1,105 |
| 2000s | 93% | 728 | 0% | 340 |
| 2010s | 85% | 239 | — |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Patrice with a country
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curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Patrice&country=FR" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Patrice
Is Patrice a male or female name?
Patrice is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 98% and male usage in France at 99%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Patrice change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Patrice identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.