Patrice
Barely present in Poland: around 51 people carry it, most of them men, and no newborn has taken it in over two decades. A Latin name at root, from the word for a patrician, someone nobly born.
Patrice Pronunciation
Patrice is pronounced paht-REE-tse (/patˈrit͡sɛ/).
What Patrice means
Where Patrice comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Patrice comes from the Latin patricius, the word Rome used for its ruling families. Inside it sits pater, father, because a patrician counted among the fathers of the city. He held rank by birth. So the meaning runs straight from the root to the surface: nobleman, patrician, a person of the old governing order.
France made Patrice an ordinary given name, worn mostly by men and by some women too. Marshal Patrice de MacMahon carried it into public life as President of the Third Republic from 1873 to 1879. The Latin sense of high birth suited a soldier who ended up head of state, though the name reached far beyond that one office.
To a Polish ear Patrice reads as French. The trail behind it is older than France, and it leads back to Roman patricius. Picture the name in a school class register, sitting among the Piotrs and Pawełs, plainly an import. Follow it down and you reach the same short meaning that Rome gave it: nobleman.
How many people are named Patrice
1 in 485141 men in Poland is named Patrice. 51 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5300 among male names.
Patrice as a middle name
Patrice is a first name for 51 men in Poland and a middle name for another 41, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1243rd, between Olof (41) and Rudi (41).
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#1241 Nikolaos41
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#1242 Olof41
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#1243 Patrice41
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#1244 Rudi41
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#1245 Stefano41