Redpath
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Redpath is a surname, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Welsh, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Habitational surname from a minor place in Berwickshire, from Old English rēad (“red”) + pæþ (“path, track”).
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 53K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 60K
- USUnited States1 in 343K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.4K ◐
- Sources
- 121 ●
- 1 in 44K ◐
across 12 countries
14K records
Official registry-verified
Antigua & Barbuda
Meaning & origin●
Habitational surname from a minor place in Berwickshire, from Old English rēad (“red”) + pæþ (“path, track”).
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1.2K | 3.7K rec. | 1 in 53K | — | Redpath | 69 |
| US United States | ≈969 | 7.9K rec. | 1 in 343K | 734 | Redpath | 121 |
| AU Australia | ≈421 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 60K | — | Redpath | 50 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈342△ | 135 rec. | 1 in 165K | — | Redpath | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈287 | 528 rec. | 1 in 131K | — | Redpath | 43 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈69 | 79 rec. | 1 in 72K | — | Redpath | 20 |
| DE Germany | ≈25 | 31 rec. | 1 in 3.2M | 1 | Redpath | 15 |
| IE Ireland | ≈14 | 24 rec. | 1 in 383K | — | Redpath | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈8 | 13 rec. | 1 in 353K | — | Redpath | 2 |
| BE Belgium | ≈4 | 8 rec. | 1 in 3.2M | 2 | Redpath | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈4 | 6 rec. | 1 in 4.8M | — | Redpath | 5 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈2 | 123 rec. | 1 in 44K | — | Redpath | 1 |
Roughly 1.2K people in United Kingdom bear this name (about 1 in 53K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English14K82%
- Welsh2.4K14%
- Spanish2542%
- Greek541%
- German411%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 13,674 | 82% |
| Welsh | 2,404 | 14% |
| Spanish | 254 | 2% |
| Greek | 54 | 1% |
| German | 41 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- John Redpathb. 1796CACanadian businessman
- Peter Redpathb. 1821CACanadian businessman
- James Redpathb. 1833GBAmerican journalist and abolitionist (1833–1891)
- Henry Adeney Redpathb. 1848GBBritish philologist (1848-1908)
- Beatrice Redpathb. 1886CACanadian poet, short story writer (1886-1937)
- Anne Redpathb. 1895GBScottish modern painter (1895-1965)
- Norma Redpathb. 1928AUAustralian sculptor, painter (1928-2013)
- Bill Redpathb. 1957USAmerican politician
- Cameron Redpathb. 1999GBScottish rugby union player
- Stephen RedpathGBBritish ecologist and conservation scientist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 734 | #30,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 724 | #33,810 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 719 | #32,079 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 18 | #88,854 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #237,859 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #235,696 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #141,738 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #196,312 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2011 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-06 data build · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Redpath?
- We estimate roughly 3.4 thousand people bear Redpath (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Redpath have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.2 thousand people bear Redpath in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled redpath.
- Where is Redpath most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Redpath is densest in Antigua & Barbuda — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Redpath mean?
- Recorded meaning: Habitational surname from a minor place in Berwickshire, from Old English rēad (“red”) + pæþ (“path, track”).
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About this data
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