The Fitzpatrick surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 40,449 people carried this name — #852 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 7,290 people counted. That is up 2% from 39,501 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Fitzpatrick surname

A patrilineal surname transferred from the given name.

Calque of the Irish surname Mac Giolla Phádraig (“son of the devotee of Saint Patrick”). By surface analysis, Fitz- + Patrick.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Fitzpatrick» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as a baptismal name, from a given name: ‘the son of Patrick’.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 290 · public domain.

In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890

Ireland registered 249 births for the Fitzpatrick name in 1890.

They were registered in all four provinces, most of all in Leinster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 11,100 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born, 1890

Leinster 103
Ulster 64
Munster 62
Connacht 20

Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

62 people named Fitzpatrick live in Switzerland.

They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Zurich 13
Geneva 11
Valais 9
Basel-Stadt 8
Lucerne 5
Vaud 4
Graubünden 3
Fribourg 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 39 people named Fitzpatrick.

Most of them — 29 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 3 départements, most often Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 29
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon 6
Paris 3
Hauts-de-Seine 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In the Nordic population registers

62 people named Fitzpatrick are counted in Sweden and Finland.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 40
Finland (2026) 22

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In Scotland’s registers today

Fitzpatrick was recorded 70 times in Scotland’s registers of births, marriages and deaths in 2025.

That made it the 380th most common name in those registers, shared with others on the same count. In 1975, the first year of the series, the count was 118. Each birth counts the child’s surname, each marriage both partners’ and each death the surname of the person who died — a yearly count of registrations, not of the people who live in Scotland.

National Records of Scotland, «Most Common Surnames, 2025» (published 26 May 2026): every surname recorded 10 or more times in the 2025 registers, and the series from 1975 · different spellings are counted separately — © Crown copyright 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

39 families named Fitzpatrick, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 193 people lived in those households, 5 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 5 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Virginia 12
Pennsylvania 8
North Carolina 6
South Carolina 6
Maryland 4
New York 3

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 240 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Fitzpatrick in American newspapers,
1902–1926.

Newspaper page from The Salt Lake Herald carrying the name Fitzpatrick
The Salt Lake Herald 1902-11-09
Newspaper page from Evening Journal carrying the name Fitzpatrick
Evening Journal 1917-11-13
Newspaper page from The Citizen=Times carrying the name Fitzpatrick
The Citizen=Times 1926-01-07

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 168,106 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Fitzpatrick in Australian newspapers,
1820s–2000s.

122,542 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Fitzpatrick. The most, 21,556, date from the 1910s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 1.7 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 66,990
Victoria 22,813
Queensland 11,178
Tasmania 8,428
Western Australia 7,199
South Australia 5,254
ACT (Canberra) 485
Northern Territory 62

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Fitzpatrick.

Who carried it

People named Fitzpatrick,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Thomas Fitzpatrick
    Thomas Fitzpatrick 1799–1854 · explorer
  • Benjamin Fitzpatrick
    Benjamin Fitzpatrick 1802–1869 · lawyer
  • John Bernard Fitzpatrick
    John Bernard Fitzpatrick 1812–1866 · Catholic priest
  • Thomas Y. Fitzpatrick
    Thomas Y. Fitzpatrick 1850–1906 · judge
  • Charles Fitzpatrick
    Charles Fitzpatrick 1851–1942 · judge

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 266 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Fitzpatrick,
in the records of 8 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States14,862 records

14,862 records of the Fitzpatrick name in the United States
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 4,997
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 4,296
  • Other U.S. records 5,569
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Larry C. Fitzpatrick

    Born 1920 in Ohio. Enlisted 1942 at Cleveland; clerk from Ashland County. U.S. Army veteran; died 1971, buried at Zanesville Memorial Park, Blue Rock, Ohio.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Philip W. Fitzpatrick

    Born 1919 in Massachusetts. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Jay Governors Island, New York; shipping clerk. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Calverton National Cemetery, New York.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Mary Fitzpatrick

    Arrived at New York in 1892 aboard the Majestic from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 22; domestic. From Liverpool, England; bound for Ohio.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 14,862 records for Fitzpatrick in the United States.

Counts: NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · New York State, Open NY (police and firefighter memorial rolls) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · Ramsey County, Minnesota (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Australia3,582 records

3,582 records of the Fitzpatrick name in Australia
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 1,300
  • Tasmanian Names Index 700
  • Other Australian records 1,582
  1. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record Eliza Fitzpatrick

    Transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Earl Grey, sailing from Kingston in 1849. Native of Queens. Applied for permission to marry in Van Diemen's Land in 1850. Married 1851 in Hobart, Tasmania, aged 19.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  2. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record Anne Fitzpatrick

    Transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Duke of Cornwall, sailing from Kingston in 1850. Native of Kilkenny. Applied for permission to marry in Van Diemen's Land in 1854.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A petition to the probate court of St. Louis, 1848
    Example: probate petition, 1848
    Probate record Francis Henry Fitzpatrick

    Died 1930 in Westbury, Tasmania. Will registered in Tasmania in 1930.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 3,582 records for Fitzpatrick in Australia.

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0) · Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY) · State Library of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0) · ACT Government, Transport Canberra and City Services (CC BY 4.0) · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · City of Ballarat, Avenue of Honour Plaques (CC BY 3.0 AU). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain); Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain).

Canada411 records

411 records of the Fitzpatrick name in Canada
  • Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 286
  • Canadian Virtual War Memorial 42
  • Other Canadian records 83
  1. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Joseph Fitzpatrick

    Came to Ontario in 1871 aboard the Samation, landing at Quebec, bound for Fergus, Ontario; Irish.

    Archives of Ontario. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
  2. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record John Dunaker Fitzpatrick

    Buried in 1963 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, aged 70.

    City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.
  3. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Charles J. Fitzpatrick

    Died 1939 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Showing 3 of 411 records for Fitzpatrick in Canada.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. · Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. · City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. · City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · Archives of Ontario. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · Contains information provided by the City of Waterloo under licence · Halifax Regional Municipality. Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence—Halifax. · City of Niagara Falls. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Niagara Falls. · City of Winnipeg. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

United Kingdom65 records

65 records of the Fitzpatrick name in the United Kingdom
  • War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead 39
  • Stirling Council burial records 18
  • Other British records 8
  1. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record James Fitzpatrick

    Died 1915, aged 21; buried at Bannockburn Cemetery, Stirling, Scotland.

    Stirling Council. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
  2. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Bartholomew Fitzpatrick

    Buried in 1849 at St James's burial ground, Euston, London, aged 30.

    MOLA and HS2, St James's burial ground data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
  3. A First World War roll of honour of the staff of C. & E. Morton Ltd
    Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919
    War record George W. Fitzpatrick

    Died 1917. Named in the roll of honour (1926).

    National Library of Scotland, Rolls of Honour (public domain)

Showing 3 of 65 records for Fitzpatrick in the United Kingdom.

Counts: National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · Stirling Council. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. · MOLA and HS2, St James's burial ground data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. · National Library of Scotland, Rolls of Honour (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0); C. & E. Morton Ltd roll of honour, 1914–1919, photo by Adrian S Pye via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0).

New Zealand41 records

41 records of the Fitzpatrick name in New Zealand
  • Christchurch City cemetery records 21
  • Thames-Coromandel District cemetery records 11
  • Other New Zealand records 9
  1. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Daniel Fitzpatrick

    Buried in 1936 at Shortland Cemetery, Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato, aged 76.

    Thames-Coromandel District Council (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record John Fitzpatrick

    Died 1942, aged 72; buried at Linwood Cemetery, Christchurch, Canterbury.

    Christchurch City Council (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record John Fitzpatrick

    Died 1904, aged 82; buried at Havelock Cemetery, Marlborough.

    Marlborough District Council (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 41 records for Fitzpatrick in New Zealand.

Counts: Christchurch City Council (CC BY 4.0) · Thames-Coromandel District Council (CC BY 4.0) · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · Marlborough District Council (CC BY 4.0) · Waimakariri District Council (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0).

Ireland14 records

14 records of the Fitzpatrick name in Ireland County Galway graveyard records
  1. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Bridget Fitzpatrick

    Died 1984, aged 87; buried at Renvyle, Co. Galway.

    Galway County Council (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Mary Fitzpatrick

    Died 1976; buried at Lackagh (Old), Co. Galway.

    Galway County Council (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 2 of 14 records for Fitzpatrick in Ireland.

Counts: Galway County Council (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0).

Netherlands14 records

14 records of the Fitzpatrick name in the Netherlands
  • Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths) 5
  • Dutch church registers before 1811 5
  • Dutch population registers 4
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Bryon William Fitzpatrick

    Married in 1945 in Eelde; mechanic.

    Open Archives, Drents Archief (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record James Fitzpatrick

    Died 1960 in Venlo, aged 44.

    Open Archives, Regionaal Historisch Centrum Limburg (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 2 of 14 records for Fitzpatrick in the Netherlands.

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

France11 records

11 records of the Fitzpatrick name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record James Joseph Fitzpatrick

    Born 1905 in Levallois-Perret (Paris); died 1985 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
  2. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Yvonne Marie Fitzpatrick

    Born 1891 in Rochefort (Charente-Maritime); died 1975 in Les Sables-d'Olonne (Vendée).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Showing 2 of 11 records for Fitzpatrick in France.

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

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