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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

'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.

Meaning of PATTEN in historical publications

PATTEN. According to B.L.G., Richard Patten, son and heir of Richard Patten, was of Patine, or Patten, near Chelmsford, co. Essex, in 1119. From him the Pattens of Bank Hall, co. Lancaster, claim lineal descent.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for PATTEN

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