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Throughout the world, パディ (Paddy , Paddi , パディ) is a common principally male, but very infrequently feminine given name. The given name パディ is characteristic of Ireland, where it is quite a common boy's name, Israel, and Hong Kong, where it is quite a rare principally boy's, but scarcely female name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is commonest in Israel, Ireland, and Australia. Much less frequently, パディ is the last name as well as the forename.
パディ is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Paddy Scanlon , the fictional character from Darby O'Gill and the Little People; Paddy Kirk , the Fictional character from Emmerdale; Paddy Garcia , character in Rum Sodomy & the Lash and Paddy Leonard , the character in James Joyce's Ulysses and Dubliners.