Last Name PATEL

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Jewish, Indian, French, Ugandan, Belgian, Botswanan, Zimbabwean, Malawian, South african, Mauritian, Hungarian, Kenyan, Pakistani

Rank	172 (2000 US census)	591 (1990 US census)

Count	145,066 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

1.55%, or 2249 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.26%, or 377 total occurrences, as black,
91.37%, or 132547 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.41%, or 595 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
5.84%, or 8472 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
0.57%, or 827 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Scottish surnames

Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

Double-barrelled surnames

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