The PATTEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,448	2880	0.004	42
United States (1880 census)	6,337	961	0.013	127
Change since 1880	+5111	-1919	-0.009	-85
Other Countries
Australia	973	1696	0.006	60
United Kingdom	2,529	2422	0.006	55

Top States for PATTEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	965	3192	0.003	28
Florida	838	2436	0.005	52
Massachusetts	497	1814	0.008	78
Texas	432	4855	0.002	21
Michigan	430	2670	0.004	43
Top States for PATTEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	395	444	0.032	320
Maine	329	771	0.026	258
Vermont	83	1319	0.014	136
Utah	280	1071	0.013	125
Iowa	354	920	0.012	121

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PATTEN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PATTEN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PATTEN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PATTEN by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PATTEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PATTEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PATTEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PATTEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	172	1.5
Mixed Race	155	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	134	1.17
Asian/Pacific	57	0.5
White (Caucasian)	9,908	86.55
Black/African American	1,023	8.94

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PATTEN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to PATTEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PATTEN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.