Patterson Family History
Patterson Name Meaning
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.
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Name Distribution of Patterson Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Patterson families
 1,299 - 2,595  434 - 1,298 |
 1 - 433  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Patterson families
|
989 - 1,976 330 - 988 |
1 - 329 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Patterson families
|
249 - 496 84 - 248 |
1 - 83 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Patterson Family Origin
Patterson Immigration Information
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Patterson Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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