Patton

At the 2020 census, 62,929 Americans bore the surname Patton — 524th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,750.

By the numbers

People: 62,929
Rank: 524th
How common: 1 in 4,750
Per 100,000: 21.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.3%
Black, not Hispanic 20.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Patton

George S. Patton (1885–1945)United States Army general
Paula Patton (born 1975)American actress
Will Patton (born 1954)American actor
Candice Patton (born 1988)American actress
Mike Patton (born 1968)American singer
Charley Patton (1891–1934)American Delta blues musician
Mel Patton (1924–2014)American athletics competitor
Darvis Patton (born 1977)American sprinter

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

Surnames like Patton

Also a first name

Patton has been given to 1,763 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2015. 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.