It's really a pretty name. It's soft and elegant. It's easy to lose sight of that because it's dated, and when it was popular, it was very, very popular.
My sister is named
Patricia and wishes she weren't. Partly because of how popular it was, and partly because she doesn't like her nickname,
Patty. She is never called
Patricia.
I don't care for
Patty or
Pat myself. I like
Tricia or
Trish better. My sister tried to change her nickname to
Trish when she was in elementary school, but it just didn't stick. Now she thinks that effort was silly, for all that she doesn't like
Patty.