Surname statistics for Patrick

There are approximately 13,477 people named Patrick in the UK. That makes it the 755th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 213 are named Patrick.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)13477755N/A213
United Kingdom (1881 census)59677440.02199
Change since 1881+7510-11+0.001+14
Other Countries
United States58257513N/A216
Australia15531053N/A95

Politics

People with the surname Patrick are more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Labour.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Patrick are:

  1. Labour (5)
  2. Conservative (4)
  3. Liberal Democrat (4)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Patrick
John Patrick
James Patrick
Michael Patrick
Andrew Patrick
Ian Patrick
Richard Patrick
Robert Patrick
Mark Patrick
Stephen Patrick
Christopher Patrick
William Patrick
Alan Patrick
Neil Patrick
Nigel Patrick
Kevin Patrick
Joseph Patrick
Peter Patrick
Stuart Patrick
Julian Patrick

Top female forenames

Margaret Patrick
Alison Patrick
Susan Patrick
Jacqueline Patrick
Helen Patrick
Jane Patrick
Carole Patrick
Deborah Patrick
Patricia Patrick
Michelle Patrick
Mary Patrick
Sandra Patrick
Janet Patrick
Elizabeth Patrick
Karen Patrick
Laura Patrick
Emma Patrick
Catherine Patrick
Lynn Patrick
Joanne Patrick

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.