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The patterson Surname

patterson Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and northern English: patronymic from a pet form of Pate, a short form of Patrick.
  2. 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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patterson Family Facts

Distribution of patterson Families in the US in 1920
Number of patterson families
 1299-2595
 434-1298		 1-433
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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