Fitzpatrick

39,241 people in the United States were counted with the surname Fitzpatrick in the 2020 census, making it the 867th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,617.

By the numbers

People: 39,241
Rank: 867th
How common: 1 in 7,617
Per 100,000: 13.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Calque of the Irish surname Mac Giolla Phádraig (“son of the devotee of Saint Patrick”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Fitzpatrick described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.5%
Black, not Hispanic 9.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Fitzpatrick

Leo Fitzpatrick (born 1978)American actor
Becca Fitzpatrick (born 1979)American writer
Sheila Fitzpatrick (born 1941)Australian and American historian
Theresa Fitzpatrick (born 1995)New Zealand rugby union player
Ryan Fitzpatrick (born 1982)American football player
Benjamin Fitzpatrick (1802–1869)American politician
Brian Fitzpatrick (born 1973)American politician
Menna Fitzpatrick (born 1998)Welsh alpine skier

People named Fitzpatrick with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Fitzpatrick

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.