Pádraic

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pádraic is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin patricius (“patrician”), via Old Welsh.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland≈1 in 6.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 354K
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 182K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

939 people, 2020

Sources
220 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Padraic in US United States, IE Ireland, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Pádraic: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Pádraic
  1. Latinpatricius“patrician”(measured from records)
  2. OldWelsh(measured from records)

From Latin patricius (“patrician”), via Old Welsh.

Sources 1

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pádraic counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pádraic is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9391 in 354K938Padraic220
IE Ireland#324≈840 est.≈1 in 6.2K—Padraic80
GB United Kingdom—≈220 est.≈1 in 307K3Padraic85
AU Australia—≈140 est.≈1 in 189K1Padraic45
EG Egypt—≈110 est.≈1 in 949K—Padraic1
JM Jamaica—≈15 est.≈1 in 182K—Padraic1

939 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pádraic is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Padraic

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ireland, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Padraic

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Padraic

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ireland, United States

    Also written Padraic

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pádraic is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, a male given name, variant of Pádraig, equivalent to English Patrick

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Pádraic Fahy, b. 1948Pádraic Ó Neachtain, b. 1973Pádraic Delaney, b. 1977Pádraic Maher, b. 1989

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(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pádraic mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin patricius (“patrician”), via Old Welsh. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Pádraic a male or female name?
Pádraic is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Pádraic?
In the etymology graph, Patrick, Patricio and Patrik are forms of the same name in other languages; Paddy is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Pádraic have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 939 people named Pádraic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled padraic.
How common is the name Pádraic?
In the United States, the national register counted 939 people named Pádraic in 2020, about 1 in 354 thousand residents.
How common is Pádraic compared with other names?
In Ireland, Pádraic is the 324th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pádraic” — the 324th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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