Last Name KIRKPATRICK

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Meaning	Local: from the parish of Kirkpatrick in Dumfriesshire. The family are descended from Ivone Kirkpatrick, temp. David I. On the 10th February, 1306, Robert Bruce, in company with Sir Roger de Kirkpatrick and other gentlemen, met Red John Cummin in the Grey Friars church at Dumfries. A dispute arising between them, Bruce stabbed Cummin twice before the high altar in the church, and rushing out pale and frightened, said, on being questioned as to the cause of his alarm, " I doubt that I have slain the Red Cummin." "Doubtest thou?" exclaimed Kirkpatrick, "I make sure," and hastening into the church he dispatched the wounded Regent with his dagger. In commemoration of this action, King Robert conferred on the family for a crest, a hand holding a dagger in pale, distilling drops of blood, and for a motto: "I make sure." Local: A parish in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, i.e., Patrick's Church.

Origin	Scottish, Irish, Belgian

Rank	1,229 (2000 US census)	1,125 (1990 US census)

Count	26,155 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

91.09%, or 23825 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
5.37%, or 1405 total occurrences, as black,
0.47%, or 123 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.47%, or 123 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.15%, or 301 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.45%, or 379 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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