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    The surname Pattillo

    A place surname, carried by 2,313 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex P340

    Pattillo: #13,214 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pattillo #13,214, 2,313 people Pattillo: #13,214 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pattillo #13,214, 2,313 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pattillo is more common than 91.9% of them.

    Origin

    Habitational surname from either of two minor places in Scotland, from the Pictish element peit (“portion (of land)”) + a Scottish Gaelic word akin to Irish tulach (“hill”).

    Pattillo is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,313 people named Pattillo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 133,483 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,071.

    #13,214
    rank among US surnames
    2,313
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.7%
    change since 2000 (was #13,473)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,210Wigfall2,314133,425
    #13,214Pattillo2,313133,483
    #13,219Devitt2,312133,540
    #13,221Vanvalkenburg2,311133,598

    Who is named Pattillo

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    83% of people named Pattillo identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Pattullo

    Surnames that sound like Pattillo

    Pattillo has the Soundex code P340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P340.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Pattillo come from?
    Habitational surname from either of two minor places in Scotland, from the Pictish element peit (“portion (of land)”) + a Scottish Gaelic word akin to Irish tulach (“hill”).
    How common is the surname Pattillo?
    2,313 people in the United States had the surname Pattillo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 133,483 Americans. It ranked 13,214th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pattillo?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Pattillo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Pattillo?
    Pattillo is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Pattillo getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,071 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,313 in 2010, up 12%.
    What are other spellings of Pattillo?
    Pattullo.