as a Last Name
- 734
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Patella
Meaning & Origins
Italian: 1. possibly from patella ‘limpet’, and hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who collected shell fish, or a nickname for a tenacious or withdrawn person. 2. nickname or metonymic occupational name from a variant of patella ‘porringer’, ‘frying pan’. In this sense, it is also found as a Greek name.
| 34,022nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Patel, Pate, Paterson, Patenaude, Pater, Paterno, Paternoster, Pates, Paternostro, Patek
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 734
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Patella per capita
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