Patton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Patton, Salop and Westmorland; first attested John de Patinton, de Patton 1221 AssSa, 1297 SRY
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpætən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Patton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 5K
- CACanada≈1 in 5.8K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 519 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Patton, Salop and Westmorland; first attested John de Patinton, de Patton 1221 AssSa, 1297 SRY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Patton, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Patton 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Patton | 18 |
| US United States | #411 | 66,293 | 1 in 5K | 66K | Patton | 519 |
| GB United Kingdom | #664 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 3.2K | Patton | 184 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Patton | 7 |
| CA Canada | #530 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 1 | Patton | 159 |
| IE Ireland | #427 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Patton | 64 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Patton is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Gen. George Smith, US general
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
English Peer
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Croatian, američki general; znamenit po agresivnoj i hrabroj taktici njegovih tenkovskih jedinica u 2. svjetskom ratu
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- George S. Pattonb. 1885USUnited States Army general (1885–1945)
- Charley Pattonb. 1891USAmerican Delta blues musician (1891–1934)
- George Patton IVb. 1923USU.S. Army general (1923-2004)
- Mel Pattonb. 1924USAmerican athletics competitor (1924-2014)
- Will Pattonb. 1954USAmerican actor
- Mark Pattonb. 1959USAmerican actor
- Mike Pattonb. 1968USAmerican singer
- Paula Pattonb. 1975USAmerican actress (born 1975)
- Big Boib. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and record producer
- Candice Pattonb. 1988USAmerican actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 66K | #506 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 65K | #464 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 63K | #524 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 3.2K | #2,439 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Patton mean, and where does it come from?
- from Patton, Salop and Westmorland; first attested John de Patinton, de Patton 1221 AssSa, 1297 SRY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Patton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpætən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Patton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 203 thousand people named Patton in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patton.
- How common is the name Patton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 66,293 people named Patton in 2010, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Patton compared with other names?
- In the United States, Patton is the 411th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Patton” — the 411th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.