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Across the world, Paddy (Paddy , بادي , פאדי , and others...) is a common predominantly boy's, but very seldom feminine given name. The given name Paddy is habitual in Ireland, where it is quite a common masculine name, Israel, and Hong Kong, where it is quite a rare primarily masculine, but scarcely girly name. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in Israel, Ireland, and Australia. Likewise, Paddy is the last name as well as the forename.
Paddy 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; Syndrome , the main antagonist of the 2004 film The Incredibles and Paddy Leonard , the character in James Joyce's Ulysses and Dubliners, among other works.