Patsy is a 19th-century English diminutive of Patricia — from the Latin patricius ("noble, of noble birth"). Patsy Cline (1932-1963) — born Virginia Patterson Hensley — *one of the most influential female country singers of the 20th century; her recordings of Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, and Sweet Dreams between 1957 and 1963 established the Nashville Sound and the modern country crossover. First female solo artist inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame (1973); died in a plane crash at 30. Patsy Mink (1927-2002) — first woman of color and first Asian American woman elected to the United States Congress (Hawaii, 1965); co-author of Title IX. Patsy Kensit* — British actress.
Subject of Margaret Jones's Patsy (1994) and Mark Rydell's Sweet Dreams (1985) with Jessica Lange.
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.
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.