Pádraig
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɑdɹæɪɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pádraig is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ireland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Patricius, likely via Old Welsh.
- IEIreland≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 80K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 98K
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.
- Ireland (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Padraig in IE Ireland, US United States, 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)
- LatinPatricius(measured from records)
- OldWelsh(measured from records)
From Latin Patricius, likely via Old Welsh.
Sources 1
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pádraig 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | #185 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 40 | Padraig | 118 |
| US United States | — | 893 | 1 in 372K | 893 | Padraig | 184 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 26 | Padraig | 133 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 313K | — | Padraig | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 2 | Padraig | 81 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Padraig | 12 |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
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: CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); 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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pádraig is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Irish Gaelic form of PATRICK . Variant: Páraic (found in Connacht). Cognates: Scottish Gaelic: Pàdraig (used as a secular form of PETER ); Pàra, Pàdair (dialectal forms). Pet forms: Irish Gaelic: Páidín (Anglicized as Paudeen). Scottish Gaelic: Pàidean (from which comes the surname Mac Phàidein , Anglicized as MacFadyen ) .
as a word
In Irish, a male given name from Latin, 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)
- Pádraig Faulknerb. 1918IEIrish Fianna Fáil politician (1918-2012)
- Pádraig Ó Fiannachtab. 1927IEIrish academic
- Pádraig Ó Snodaighb. 1935IEIrish activist
- Pádraig Flynnb. 1939IEIrish politician and EU Commissioner
- Padraig O'Connorb. 1952IEIrish footballer
- Pádraig McKearneyb. 1954IEPIRA volunteer (1954-1987)
- Pádraig Cusackb. 1962IEIrish theatre producer
- Pádraig Timoneyb. 1968IEartist (born 1968)
- Pádraig Harringtonb. 1971IEIrish professional golfer
- Pádraig Amondb. 1988IEIrish hurler and soccer player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2008 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Pádraig?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑdɹæɪɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Pádraig mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Patricius, likely via Old Welsh. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Pádraig?
- 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.
- Is Pádraig a male or female name?
- Pádraig 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.
- In which country does Pádraig have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Pádraig in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled padraig.
- How common is the name Pádraig?
- In the United States, the national register counted 893 people named Pádraig in 2020, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
- How common is Pádraig compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Pádraig is the 185th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A1draigThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Pádraig” — the 185th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.