Patrick

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: from the male personal name Patrick, from Latin Patricius, literally ‘member of the patrician class’

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pætɹɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Patrick is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 183(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 205
  • ATAustria≈1 in 223

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Patrick itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

551,884 people, 2020

#157 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
673 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 183 (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PatrickLatin(measured from records)
ПатрикCyrillic(measured from records)
แพทริคThai(measured from records)
ՊատրիկArmenian(measured from records)
ΠάτρικGreek(measured from records)
פאטריקHebrew(measured from records)
패트릭Hangul(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Patrik in CZ Czechia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the male personal name Patrick, from Latin Patricius, literally ‘member of the patrician class’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

How Patrick is read(measured from records)

Patrick is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English68%

    from the male personal name Patrick, from Latin Patricius, literally ‘member of the patrician class’.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

    Latin, ‘noble’; from patricius, denoting the Roman patrician class, and the national name of Ireland; patron saint of Ireland.

    as a nameIrish first names

    from Old Irish Patraicc, Latin Patricius 'patrician'; first attested Patricius 1175-96 YCh (Yorkshire)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    Nobleman; name of the patron saint of Ireland

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • French12%

    a male given name, the English form of Patrice, quite popular in France

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Du latin Patricius, « noble, patricien »; nom associé à saint Patrick, évangélisateur de l’Irlande.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Patrick counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Patrick is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#72551,8841 in 603551KPatrick673
NG Nigeria#149≈300,000 est.≈1 in 725—Patrick141
FR France—≈250,000 est.≈1 in 273395KPatrick15
DE Germany#65≈210,000 est.≈1 in 387listedPatrick322
PL Poland#284180,230as Patryk1 in 212180KPatrick118
CZ Czechia#5261,364as Patrik1 in 17461KPatrik151
BE Belgium#53≈57,000 est.≈1 in 20519Patrick187
CH Switzerland#17≈46,000 est.≈1 in 18348Patrick170
AT Austria#24≈40,000 est.≈1 in 22324KPatrick194

551,884 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); MVČR — living population register 2017; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Patrick is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Pätrick, Pâtrick, Patrîck, Patriçk, Patríck

  • Spanish given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Patrïck, Patriçk, Pátríck, Pâtrick, Pátrick

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Nigeria, South Africa

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Patrick'

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Patrick

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, United Kingdom, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Pätrick, Pätríck

114 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

188019001920194019601980Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, b. 1897Patrick White, b. 1912George Carlin, b. 1937Patrick Stewart, b. 1940Jimmy Page, b. 1944Patrick Modiano, b. 1945Alan Rickman, b. 1946Didier Queloz, b. 1966Patrick Dempsey, b. 1966Ronan Keating, b. 1977

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Patrick,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 148 sources across 75 countries.

Official registers attesting Patrick
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020551K#75
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024395K#1,236
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202424K#326
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20264.5K#243
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4.3K#246
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.5K—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1.1K#459
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020780#75
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—565#513

Reference works 7

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Patrick mean, and where does it come from?
from the male personal name Patrick, from Latin Patricius, literally ‘member of the patrician class’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
Is Patrick a male or female name?
Patrick is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Patrick?
In the etymology graph, Patricio, Patrik and Patric are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Patrick have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 552 thousand people named Patrick, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patrick.
How common is the name Patrick?
In the United States, the national register counted 551,884 people named Patrick in 2020, about 1 in 603 residents.
How common is Patrick compared with other names?
In the United States, Patrick is the 72nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Patrick?
A machine transcription gives /pætɹɪk/ (IPA) for English.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Patrick” — the 72nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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