Fitzpatrick

A patrilineal surname transferred from the given name.

Proper noun

  1. A patrilineal surname transferred from the given name.
    • Jones began to be very importunate with the lady to unmask; and at length having prevailed, there appeared not Mrs Fitzpatrick, but the Lady Bellaston herself. - 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a...

Origin

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

Derived

Fitzpatrick scale