Pattenden Family History
Pattenden Name Meaning
from Pattenden in Goudhurst (Kent) or Great and Little Pattenden in Marden (Kent). The place-names probably derive from an Old English personal name *Peat(t)a (genitive *Peat(t)an) + Old English denn ‘pasture’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016