Padraig
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Irish Gaelic; noble, well-born; from the name Patrick
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Padraig is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ireland than in any other country.
- 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
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish Gaelic; noble, well-born; from the name Patrick
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Padraig 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)
Padraig 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.
In English, Irish form of Patrick
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Irish Gaelic form of Patrick.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Padraig McCroryb. 1988Irish boxer
- Padraig Reynoldswriter and director
- Padraig Corcoranresearcher ORCID id 0000-0001-9731-3385
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 893 | #13,493 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 1999 | 98 | #61 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2006 | 83 | #80 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2007 | 81 | #86 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 1998 | 77 | #68 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2009 | 75 | #103 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2005 | 75 | #84 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2001 | 73 | #79 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2011 | 72 | #106 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2004 | 72 | #84 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2000 | 70 | #78 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2010 | 69 | #102 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Padraig mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish Gaelic; noble, well-born; from the name Patrick Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Padraig a male or female name?
- Padraig 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 Padraig have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Padraig in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled padraig.
- How common is the name Padraig?
- In the United States, the national register counted 893 people named Padraig in 2020, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
- How common is Padraig compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Padraig is the 185th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Padraig?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/padraigThe 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, “Padraig” — the 185th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.