Paton

Paton is the 10,915th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,788 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 107,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,788
Rank: 10,915th
How common: 1 in 107,000
Per 100,000: 0.93

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Scottish patronymic surname from a hypocoristic form of the personal name Patrick + Old French -on.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.8%
Black, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Paton

Alan Paton (1903–1988)South African writer and activist
Borys Paton (1918–2020)Soviet and Ukrainian scientist
Evgeny Paton (1870–1953)Ukrainian and Soviet scientist and engineer
Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901)British artist
David Paton (born 1949)Scottish bass and guitar player
Angela Paton (1930–2016)American actor, stage actor and television actor
Harry Paton (born 1998)Canadian association football player
Stuart Paton (1883–1944)British director, screenwriter and actor

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

Surnames like Paton

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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.