How many patricks are in the world

White Highest percentile rank of any state for this name is 99th, this rank was reached in the states of California. Minnesota is the state with the biggest positive difference between the actual state population and the projected state population based on the national average.

The state with the biggest negative difference is Arkansas where the blue bar does not extend past the yellow vertical line with a difference of 0 fewer people than projected. There are last names associated with this first name. First Name. Last Name. Twitter Facebook. In , one in 15 newborn boys were called Patrick again second only to John.

As recently as the mids, the name still featured in the top 10 of the most popular baby names but disappeared for the next decade and did not even make the top 20 on three occasions — , and respectively. Patrick accounted for just one in 97 boys born in , a far cry from 50 years earlier. During a speech to the EU parliament last year, the president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, remarked that there were more people with the surname Murphy living in the US than in Ireland in a statement which, in numerical terms at least, is true although in per capita terms it is the other way round.

The size of the Irish diaspora is estimated at 70 million people, with 44 million people in the US describing themselves as being of Irish descent — more than the current population of the Republic of Ireland 4. But the phenomenon of the Irish abroad is not confined to past generations. According to data released in , a larger proportion of people born in Ireland live abroad than any other OECD country, with one in six aged over 15 living elsewhere.

More people can speak Irish than years ago At the time of the of the census, just By , that figure had increased to