Patricio
Fewer than 60 Polish men carry it, so most people here have never met one. It's the Spanish form of a Latin name meaning "nobleman", a distant cousin of the far more common Patryk.
Patricio Pronunciation
Patricio is pronounced paht-REE-cho (/patˈrit͡ɕɔ/).
What Patricio means
Where Patricio comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Patricio comes from the Latin patricius, the word Rome gave a member of its oldest ruling families. Patricians filled the senate, and the term itself grew from patres, the "fathers" who sat there. So the name meant nobleman long before it meant a person. In Polish that sense survives as szlachetnie urodzony, well born.
Spanish speakers carried the Latin form south and kept its shape almost intact. In Buenos Aires there is a neighbourhood called Parque Patricios, named for an old infantry regiment that formed in 1806 during the defence of the city. The word for Rome's aristocracy became a badge for citizen soldiers. That shift says a lot about how far a name can travel from its first owners.
Polish keeps the family close. The everyday variant is Patryk, short and common on a school register. The feminine Patrycja stands beside it. Read the ending back to its root and you reach patricius, nobleman.
How many people are named Patricio
1 in 361800 men in Poland is named Patricio. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4827 among male names.
Patricio as a middle name
Patricio is a first name for 59 men in Poland and a middle name for another 39, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1283rd, between Ozan (39) and Pradeep (39).
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#1281 Menachem39
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#1282 Ozan39
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#1283 Patricio39
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#1284 Pradeep39
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#1285 Rahul39