Kirkpatrick

Kirkpatrick is the 1,375th most common surname in the United States, shared by 25,272 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,800.

By the numbers

People: 25,272
Rank: 1,375th
How common: 1 in 11,800
Per 100,000: 8.5

Where the name comes from

From the surname elements Kirk (from church) and Patrick (from Saint Patrick).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.6%
Black, not Hispanic 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Kirkpatrick

Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926–2006)American diplomat and Presidential advisor
Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911–1984)American harpsichordist and musicologist
Chris Kirkpatrick (born 1971)American singer and dancer
Ann Kirkpatrick (born 1950)former U.S. Representative from Arizona
María Manuela Kirkpatrick (1794–1879)mother of Eugénie, Empress of the French

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

Surnames like Kirkpatrick

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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.