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The PATEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 225 78838 0 1
United States (1880 census) 331 13271 0.001 7
Change since 1880 -106 -65567 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 187 8026 0.001 11
United Kingdom 25 28053 0 1
Top States for PATEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 51 31106 0.001 5
Mississippi 33 8114 0.001 12
Louisiana 21 20434 0.000 5
Missouri 18 36922 0.000 3
Georgia 17 33356 0.000 2
Top States for PATEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 33 8114 0.001 12
Delaware 6 26731 0.001 8
Michigan 51 31106 0.001 5
Louisiana 21 20434 0.000 5
Missouri 18 36922 0.000 3

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of PATEN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PATEN surname.

Ethnic distribution of PATEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 116 51.56
Black/African American 70 31.11
Asian/Pacific 31 13.78
White (Hispanic) 6 2.67
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

PATEN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PATEN in historical publications

PATEN. Probably the same as Paton and Peyton.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PATEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PATEN.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PATEN

The following words are slight variants of PATEN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.