Patterson

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• Scottish and northern English : patronymic from a pet form of Pate, a short form of Patrick.
• Irish : in Ulster of English or Scottish origin; in County Galway, a surname taken by bearers of Gaelic Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casán), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane.