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Patricks here do seem to go by the full name more often than not. The Pats tend to be older men but who knows when they started going by Pat? Pat and Patty are very common as a nn for Patricia, which you don't see much on young women anyway. I know of only one Patricia that goes by the full name, she's about thirty-five or maybe forty. Most are Pat or Patty with a significant minority using Trish.
I did once know a Patrick, named after his father, (I think the father was called Pat by his family but among his friends, my grandfather being one of them, he was called Stretch, because he was so tall and skinny) anyway, the son Patrick was always called Rick.

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Never known a Tricky and I hope I never do.