The PATCH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,777	8084	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	1,781	3315	0.004	36
Change since 1880	+1996	-4769	-0.003	-22
Other Countries
Australia	443	3589	0.003	27
United Kingdom	639	7419	0.001	14

Top States for PATCH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	302	8852	0.001	9
Massachusetts	253	3437	0.004	40
Florida	234	8165	0.001	15
New Hampshire	217	881	0.018	176
Vermont	216	402	0.035	355
Top States for PATCH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	216	402	0.035	355
New Hampshire	217	881	0.018	176
Maine	85	2543	0.007	67
Montana	50	2518	0.006	55
North Dakota	29	3933	0.005	45

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

Classification and Origin of PATCH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PATCH 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 PATCH 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 PATCH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	69	1.83
Black/African American	54	1.43
Mixed Race	52	1.38
Native American/Alaskan	49	1.3
Asian/Pacific	29	0.77
White (Caucasian)	3,524	93.3

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

Similar names to PATCH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PATCH.

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.