Origin
Patrick : 1: Irish Scottish and English (of Norman origin): from the Anglo-Norman French Middle English and Older Scots personal name Patrick (Old Irish Patraicc) derived from Latin Patricius ‘son of a noble father member of the patrician class’. This was the name of a Christian saint a 5th-century Romano-Briton who became the apostle and patron saint of Ireland and it was largely as a result of his fame that the personal name was so popular from the Middle Ages onward. In Ireland the surname is usually Scottish in origin from Scottish settlers in Ulster in the 17th century. See also Peden and McPadden derived from pet forms of Old Irish Patraicc.2: Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Scottish and Irish Gaelic Mac Phádraig ‘son of Patrick’.3: English: variant of Partridge.4: Irish: shortened form of Fitzpatrick and the now extinct Mulpatrick.5: Americanized form of Slovak or Rusyn (from Slovakia) Petrík (see Petrik) and of Ukrainian or Rusyn Petryk.6: Americanized form of Polish Patrzyk: unexplained.7: American shortened and altered form of Russian Patrikeev: patronymic from the personal name Patrikey derived from Greek Patrikios a cognate of 1 above.
Bronte : 1: Irish: altered form of Brunty see Prunty. The change in spelling to Brontë in the Bronte literary family (Charlotte Emily and Anne) was made by their father Patrick Brunty for reasons unknown. It may have been an affectation in imitation of the Duke of Brontë a title conferred on Admiral Lord Nelson in 1799 by Ferdinand King of Sicily. Bronte is the name of a place in Sicily literally meaning ‘thunder’. Nelson generally signed himself Nelson and Brontë.2: English (Sussex) and Irish: variant of Brunt.
Callin : Manx: shortened form of Gaelic Mac Aileáin Mac Ailín Manx Mac Aleyn ‘son of Ailín’ (‘the noble one’). Compare Callan. The main seat of the family was Ballacallin in Kirk Patrick while another branch held Ballacallin in Kirk Marown.
Kirkpatrick : Scottish: habitational name from either of two places in Dumfriess called Kirkpatrick or any of various other places in Scotland all so named from the dedication of their church to Saint Patrick. The Scottish word kirk sometimes replaced Gaelic cill ‘church’ in placenames; compare Kilpatrick.
McPheat : from Mac Phaid ‘son of Pate’ a diminutive of Patrick. Compare McFadden.
Paddy : 1: English (Cornwall): patronymic perhaps from a pet form of the Cornish saint's name Petrock used as a personal name in Cornwall in the 16th century usually in the form Petherick (Middle Cornish Pedrek). See also Patey. Alternatively the name in Cornwall could be English and belong with 2.2: English: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Paddy which could be a variant of Patey (pet form of Patrick) or alternatively a pet form of Middle English Padde with the Middle English hypocoristic suffix -y.
Pateman : from the Middle English personal name Pateman a pet form of Patrick with the hypocoristic suffix -man; compare Pate and for the suffix see Bateman Hickman Human and Potman.‘servant of Pate’ from Middle English Pate (Patrick) + man.
Patman : English (Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire):: 1: occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of someone called Pate.2: from the Middle English personal name Pateman a pet form of Patrick with the hypocoristic suffix -man.
Patson : English (Durham and London):: 1: from the Middle English personal name Pat(e) probably a pet form of Patrick + son. See Pate and Patrick and compare Pattison with which Patson is often interchangeable.2: sometimes a shortened form of Pattinson (compare Patterson).
Patten : English:: 2: occasionally a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of clogs from Middle English paten ‘clog’ (Old French patin).1: variant of Patton (a Middle English pet form of Patrick) with -in substituted for -on.
Pattison : English (northern):: 1: patronymic from the personal names Paton or Patin (Anglo-Norman French and Middle English pet forms of Patrick); see Patrick Paton and Patten. The name was often shortened to Pattison and Patteson and in the late 18th century was sometimes respelled as Patterson.2: from the Middle English personal name Pat(e) probably a pet form of Patrick + son. See Pate and Patrick.3: variant of Patterson.
Pattle : from the Middle English personal name Pat(e) a pet form of Patrick (see Pate) + the diminutive suffix -el.
Patton : English northern Irish and Scottish: from the Middle English and Older Scottish personal name Patun Paton an Old French diminutive of Pat(e) a pet form of Patrick. Compare Patrick and Pattinson.
Worters : variant of Warters. Compare James Warters 1794 Joseph Worters 1814 in IGI (Bexley Kent); Charles Warters 1807 Patrick Worters 1809 in IGI (Holborn Middx).
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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
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