Last name

Patton

English

The surname Patton is of English origin.The name is a diminutive of Pate, a short form of the name Patrick. The surname signifies the 'son of Patrick'. The given name Patrick is derived from the Latin Patricius; the son of a noble man, member of the patrician class, the Roman hereditary aristocracy. This was the name of a fifth century Romano-Briton who became the apostle of Ireland, and it was largely due to his fame that the given name was so popular during the Middle Ages. It was once a great North-English font name, leaving many descendants; Patterson, Pattison, Patten, Patton. The name may also be a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of clogs, or a nickname of a maker of them, from the Middle English 'paten', clog ( Old French 'patin' ). The American general George Patton ( 1885-1945 ) was born in San Gabriel, California, into a family with a long family tradition. His earliest American ancestor, Robert Patton, had emigrated from Scotland to Virginia ( 1770 ). This name dates as far back as the thirteenth century were a Paton is recorded in historical archives. The name was brought ot America predominately by Enlish immigrants. One of the first fore fathers to bring this name to America is that of a William Patton, formerly of Somerset, England, to America in 1636, where he became an original propietor of Billerica, Massachusets. This name is the four-hundredth and twenty-first most common surname in America.

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