Padraic
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Padraic has been given to 973 babies in the U.S. since 1955. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 36 recorded.
Babies named Padraic, 2023
1 in 663,000
Padraic over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Padraic?
Padraic had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Padraic sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Padraic. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Padraics were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Padraic was born before 1987 — so the typical Padraic is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 23.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 973
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (232).
Is Padraic rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (36)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.2% average annual change
Spellings of Padraic
Padraic is not the most common spelling — Adrain is, with 46.9% against Padraic's 10.7%.
Where Padraic is used
Across 1910–2025, Padraic was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 858,376 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Massachusetts1 in —
- 4New Jersey1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Padraic has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Padraic around the world
Where Padraic ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2023#4,992in 2023
- Northern Ireland1997–2016#421in 2016
- Ireland1964–2025#509in 2025
- South Australia1995–2001#581in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Padraic by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Padraic
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Padraic
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.