Patil

At the 2020 census, 8,091 Americans bore the surname Patil — 4,235th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 36,900.

By the numbers

People: 8,091
Rank: 4,235th
How common: 1 in 36,900
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Marathi, Kannada

or through kn ಪಾಟೀಲ (“village head”), from omr 𑘢𑘘𑘺𑘩, from pra 𑀧𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀇𑀮𑁆𑀮, from Sanskrit पट्टकिल.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.0%
White, not Hispanic 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Hispanic or Latino 0.3%

Notable people called Patil

Pratibha Patil (born 1934)President of India from 2007 to 2012
Smita Patil (1955–1986)Indian actress
Anjali Patil (born 1989)Indian actress
Shivraj Patil (1935–2025)Indian politician
Amruta Patil (born 1979)Indian graphic artist and writer
Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil (1935–2026)Governor of Tripura

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

Surnames like Patil

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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.