Patt
Yale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon.
Meaning & Origin of Patt
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Yale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon.
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The Story of Patt
The earliest SSA record of Patt as a baby girl name dates back to 1927, when 9 babies received it. 1946 was its biggest year on record, with 24 newborns named Patt — #1,859 in the national rankings. About 44% of every Patt on record arrived during the 1940s, its defining decade. Patt last appeared in the published SSA data in 1962, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 400 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
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About the name Patt
Patt is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1927 and has accumulated 400 births in the dataset. Patt's peak popularity came in 1946 when it ranked #1,859. Use the chart and map above to compare Patt's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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