Patten

At the 2020 census, 11,442 Americans bore the surname Patten — 3,059th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,100.

By the numbers

People: 11,442
Rank: 3,059th
How common: 1 in 26,100
Per 100,000: 3.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.0%
Black, not Hispanic 9.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Patten

Chris Patten (born 1944)British politician and colonial administrator
Grace Van Patten (born 1996)American actress
Tim Van Patten (born 1959)American television director, actor, screenwriter, and producer
Joyce Van Patten (born 1934)American actress
Dick Van Patten (1928–2015)American actor
Pramila Patten (born 1958)Mauritian-British barrister and United Nations official
Luana Patten (1938–1996)actress
Henry Patten (born 1996)British tennis player

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

Surnames like Patten

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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.