The patterson Surname
patterson Name Meaning and History
- Scottish and northern English: patronymic from a pet form of Pate, a short form of Patrick.
- Irish: in Ulster of English or Scottish origin; in County Galway, a surname taken by bearers of Gaelic Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casán), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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