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Paul

Patrick Name Meaning
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 Paul Name Meaning
English French German Dutch Swedish West Indian (mainly Haiti also e.g. Saint Lucia) and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the personal name Paul (from Latin Paulus ‘small’) which has always been popular in Christendom. It was the name adopted by the Pharisee Saul of Tarsus after his conversion to Christianity on the road to Damascus in about AD 3 He was a most energetic missionary to the Gentiles in the Roman Empire and played a very significant role in establishing Christianity as a major world religion. The name was borne also by numerous other early Christian saints. It is also occasionally borne by Jews; the reasons for this are not clear. In North America the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages and their patronymics and other derivatives e.g. Greek Pavlis Slovenian Pavel and Pavlič (see Pavlic ) Polish Paweł (see Pawel ) and Pawlicki Assyrian/Chaldean Polous and Polus . In France this surname is most common in Brittany (see 2 below). Breton (mainly Finistère): from a Frenchified form of the personal name Paol Breton form of Paul . Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Phóil ‘son of Paul’. Compare McFall . Catalan (Paül): habitational name from any of several places called Paül. Spanish (Paúl): topographic name from paúl ‘marsh lagoon’. Basque: Castilianized form (Paúl) of a habitational name from Padul a place in Araba/Álava province Basque Country (Spain).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022and 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. Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Scottish and Irish Gaelic Mac Phádraig ‘son of Patrick’. English: variant of Partridge . Irish: shortened form of Fitzpatrick and the now extinct Mulpatrick. Americanized form of Slovak or Rusyn (from Slovakia) Petrík (see Petrik ) and of Ukrainian or Rusyn Petryk . 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.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
SaulPauleKaulPalmPalPauliPahlPaulsPauloFaul
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Paul

Patrick Name Meaning
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 Paul Name Meaning
English French German Dutch Swedish West Indian (mainly Haiti also e.g. Saint Lucia) and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the personal name Paul (from Latin Paulus ‘small’) which has always been popular in Christendom. It was the name adopted by the Pharisee Saul of Tarsus after his conversion to Christianity on the road to Damascus in about AD 3 He was a most energetic missionary to the Gentiles in the Roman Empire and played a very significant role in establishing Christianity as a major world religion. The name was borne also by numerous other early Christian saints. It is also occasionally borne by Jews; the reasons for this are not clear. In North America the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages and their patronymics and other derivatives e.g. Greek Pavlis Slovenian Pavel and Pavlič (see Pavlic ) Polish Paweł (see Pawel ) and Pawlicki Assyrian/Chaldean Polous and Polus . In France this surname is most common in Brittany (see 2 below). Breton (mainly Finistère): from a Frenchified form of the personal name Paol Breton form of Paul . Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Phóil ‘son of Paul’. Compare McFall . Catalan (Paül): habitational name from any of several places called Paül. Spanish (Paúl): topographic name from paúl ‘marsh lagoon’. Basque: Castilianized form (Paúl) of a habitational name from Padul a place in Araba/Álava province Basque Country (Spain).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022and 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. Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Scottish and Irish Gaelic Mac Phádraig ‘son of Patrick’. English: variant of Partridge . Irish: shortened form of Fitzpatrick and the now extinct Mulpatrick. Americanized form of Slovak or Rusyn (from Slovakia) Petrík (see Petrik ) and of Ukrainian or Rusyn Petryk . 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.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
SaulPauleKaulPalmPalPauliPahlPaulsPauloFaul
From:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts