First name origin & meaning:
Latin: Noble one
First name variations: Patrice, Padraic, Padraig, Padruig, Pat, Paddy, Patterson, Paterson, Pattison, Rick, Ricky
Last name origin & meaning:
Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Phádraig ‘son of Patrick’, a personal name derived from
Latin Patricius ‘son of a noble father’, ‘member of the
patrician class’. This was the name of 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, but it is also found as a shortened form of Mulpatrick
and Fitzpatrick.
Famous people with this first name:
Patrick Dempsey,
Patrick Stewart
Famous people who gave their babies this name:
Tom Berenger,
Ryan O'Neal,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Maria Shriver,
Mare Winningham
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