Pate Family History
Pate Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the personal name Pat(t),
Pate, a short form of Patrick.English and Scottish:
nickname for a man with a bald head, from Middle English pate
‘head’, ‘skull’.French (Paté): from Old French
pat(t)é ‘with paws’, ‘pawed’ (from pat(t)e ‘paw’), a
nickname, applied presumably to a man with large and clumsy hands and
feet.German: nickname for a trustworthy man, from Middle High
German pate, Middle Low German pade ‘godfather’, ‘male
relative’ (see Paeth), or alternatively from a personal name
Bado, probably meaning ‘battle’, ‘fight’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pate
Name Distribution of Pate Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pate families
 202 - 401  68 - 201 |
 1 - 67  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pate families
|
143 - 283 48 - 142 |
1 - 47 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pate Family Origin
Pate Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Pate Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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