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The PATRICK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 58,257 513 0.022 216
United States (1880 census) 10,175 590 0.02 203
Change since 1880 +48082 +77 +0.002 +13
Other Countries
Australia 1,553 1053 0.01 95
United Kingdom 7,691 801 0.017 167
Top States for PATRICK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 3,852 297 0.034 339
Texas 3,654 709 0.018 175
California 3,532 928 0.010 104
Florida 3,370 583 0.021 211
Georgia 3,006 325 0.037 367
Top States for PATRICK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 1,672 240 0.059 588
Kentucky 2,096 268 0.052 519
Alabama 2,065 334 0.046 464
Georgia 3,006 325 0.037 367
Tennessee 2,051 423 0.036 361

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

Classification and Origin of PATRICK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 938 1.61
White (Hispanic) 845 1.45
Native American/Alaskan 588 1.01
Asian/Pacific 297 0.51
White (Caucasian) 44,287 76.02
Black/African American 11,302 19.4

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

Meaning of PATRICK in historical publications

From the Latin Patricius, noble, a senator; the name of the tutelary saint of Ireland.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


PATRICK. The personal name, borne by the patron saint of Ireland. It seems to have originated several other names which will be found below. Pati'ic, Patrick, Patryk, &c., are the spellings in H.R., and the surname apiears to have been common in the XIII. century.

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 PATRICK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PATRICK.

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 PATRICK

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