My mom told me it was easy to spell; p, a, t, r, i , c, k, how do you misspell that? Every single letter is pronounced, and theres no other name you can mistake it for. 2. It sounded nice to my mom; this part is quite difficult for me to explain, I guess she just.. liked the name? 3. at the time, it came off as uncommon to my mom; my mom spoke little of the english language, so the only thing she could base this judgement on was the people she knew around her, and no-one she knew happened to be named Patrick. This one was especially important to my mom as my dad was named Michael; and on the day of their wedding, three other Michael Youngs were getting married in Phoenix, Arizona. Speaking about Young, Ive always wondered my last name is Young, and not Yang or Yeung, well I asked my dad, and the answer was surprisingly simply, he said “Its the American way of spelling it.” Sure, that works. Now, the last thing is quite peculiar, see my mom is quite the mysticist, so she asked someone to “算” my name before deciding on it, she says its going to give a good life, which is a pretty positive thing so i wont the validity.