Patrick
At the 2020 census, 57,411 Americans bore the surname Patrick — 575th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,206.
By the numbers
- People
- 57,411
- Rank
- 575th
- How common
- 1 in 5,206
- Per 100,000
- 19.2
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
From Middle English Patrick, from Latin Patricius (“patrician”), the name of an early Irish saint.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Patrick described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Patrick
- Saint Patrick (400–500)5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland
- Tera Patrick (born 1976)American pornographic actress
- Robert Patrick (born 1958)American actor
- Danica Patrick (born 1982)American racecar driver
- Deval Patrick (born 1956)Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015
- Ruth Patrick (1907–2013)American botanist and limnologist
- Nicholas Patrick (born 1964)American astronaut
- Gail Patrick (1911–1980)American actress and television producer
People named Patrick with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Patrick
Also a first name
Patrick has been given to 689,424 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1964. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
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.