Patricius
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/patrit͡ʃius/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Patricius is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From patr- (literally “father”) + -icius (adjective-forming suffix).
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K(measured from records)
- NANamibia≈1 in 108K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,362 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From patr- (literally “father”) + -icius (adjective-forming suffix).
Sources 2
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Patricius 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,362 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Patricius | 20 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Patricius | 33 |
| NA Namibia | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 1 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Patricius | 8 |
| AT Austria | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 518K | 2 | Patricius | 5 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
1,362 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the wgnd-cd-names 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Patricius is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, patrician, noble
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sir Patricius Curwen, 1st Baronetb. 1602GBEnglish politician
- Patrizius Kittnerb. 1809CZnot in their usual nameAustrian artist (1809-1900)
- Patricius Hoefnagelsb. 1851BEBelgian politician (1851-1920)
- Patricius Schlagerb. 1864DEhistorian (1864-1930)
- Patrick Applefordb. 1925GBnot in their usual nameBritish composer, hymn writer, and priest
- Elijah Hewsonb. 1999IEnot in their usual nameIrish rock musician
- Patricius ArarsiusChristian writer, author of a discourse in Greek entitled Oceanus
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)
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.3K | #889 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 874 | #2,275 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 41 | #9,527 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2022 | 2 | #1,811 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #28 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2022 | 1 | #3,072 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1993 | 1 | #993 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Patricius mean, and where does it come from?
- From patr- (literally “father”) + -icius (adjective-forming suffix). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Patricius?
- A machine transcription gives /patrit͡ʃius/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Patricius a male or female name?
- Patricius 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 Patricius?
- In the etymology graph, Patrick, Patricio and Patrik are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Patricius have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Patricius, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patricius.
- Where is Patricius most common?
- Patricius is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Patricius?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,362 people named Patricius, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Patricius?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/patriciusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Patricius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.