Patrick (surname)

The surname Patrick has distinct Irish, Scottish, and English origins. In many cases it derives from the Anglo-Norman French, Middle English, and Older Scots personal name Patrick or as an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Mac Phádraig, "son of Patrick".[1] All have a common origin in the Latin Patricius,[1] itself meaning patrician and entering these languages via the Old Irish Patraicc.[2] In others, the surname Patrick is a shortened form of the surnames Mulpatrick and Fitzpatrick.[1] Many instances of Patrick as a surname appear in Ireland due to Scottish emigration.[1] It can also be a form of the English surname Partridge[3] or an Americanization of several Slavic names.[1][4] People with the surname Patrick include:

  1. ^ a b c d e Patrick family history, Ancestry.com, retrieved 24 April 2013. This webpage cited: Dictionary of American family names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
  2. ^ Etymology of the name Patrick by etymonline, retrieved 22 August 2024
  3. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Vol. 1. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879881-1.
  4. ^ Reaney, Percy Hilde (1995), Wilson, Richard Middlewood (ed.), A dictionary of English surnames (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 208, ISBN 0-19-863146-4