Last Name PATERNOSTER

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The paternostrer, a maker of paternosters, rosaries, chaplets, beads strung together for pattering aves. Paternoster Row may have been the Paternosters' Row.
Origin English, Dutch, Italian, Irish, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 25,865 (2000 US census)
Count 893 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 96.3%, or 860 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 0.56%, or 5 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 3.02%, or 27 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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