as a Last Name
- 224,500
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Patterson
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from a pet form of Pate, a short form of Patrick.
| 101st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 224,500
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Patterson per capita
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