Padraic

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Padraic: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Padraic: Recorded since 1964, it reached #105 in 1985, and it stood at #4,991 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
75times a registrar ranked it
60years from first to last
#105highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1997	#2859
1999	#2425
2000	#3036
2001	#3134
2002	#3225
2007	#3589
2009	#4527
2013	#4685
2014	#3895
2022	#4789
2023	#4991

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 57 of the 59 years from 1964 to 2022.

In 2022: #657 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #4789 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #204 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1964–2022
Highest recorded position: #105 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1985 (recorded 1964–2022).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4991 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Boys

Padraic appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 57 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 1,483 births with the name.

Padraic across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Padraic's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#204 (1964)	#105 (1985)	#657 (2022)	57 of 59	1,483 (1964–2022)	50 (1976)
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#2357 (1996)	#4991 (2023)	12 of 28	40 (1996–2023)	4 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#271 (1997)	#271 (1997)	#421 (2016)	6 of 20	20 (1997–2016)	5 (2007)

Padraic by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Padraic in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	65	6 of 10	11
1970s	363	10 of 10	36
1980sbusiest	442	10 of 10	44
1990s	250	10 of 10	25
2000s	214	10 of 10	21
2010s	142	9 of 10	16
2020s	7	2 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 44 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Padraic appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #105 in Republic of Ireland in 1985.

Padraic's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#421	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#276	5	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#280	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#271	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#336	12	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#272	17	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#294	15	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#267	18	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#265	19	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#227	25	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#263	19	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#301	14	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	16	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#237	21	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#241	17	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#160	30	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#158	29	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#203	15	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#171	21	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#193	16	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#165	19	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#133	30	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#169	17	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#176	14	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#145	26	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#148	26	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#134	31	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#145	23	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#144	25	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#146	26	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#136	30	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#132	32	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#108	43	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#106	45	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#121	38	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#112	39	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#105	49	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#113	45	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#111	46	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#111	46	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#116	43	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#112	48	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#113	46	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#129	31	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#117	39	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#107	50	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#119	37	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#109	46	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#113	44	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#132	28	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#131	28	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#167	14	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#141	17	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#187	8	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#137	16	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#144	13	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#194	6	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#204	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1964 and 2023, ranked in 58 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #105, first reached in 1985.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1976.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 33 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Padhraic · #212, 19y
Padhraig · #248, 13y
Padraig · #50, 62y
Padraigh · #202, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aideen · #106, 62y
Elina · #106, 53y
Andrzej · #103, 63y
Malgorzata · #109, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Noelle · #105, 62y
Aideen · #106, 62y
Clive · #106, 62y
Elina · #106, 53y

Padraic was ranked #105 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1985. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Padraic and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Padraic without appearing here.

Padraic moved ahead of

Brooke Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4685 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #3895 and #4632.
Keith Compare
In 2015 they stood at #294 and #294 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2016 that had become #272 and #448.
Jeremy Compare
In 2021 they stood at #764 and #438 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #657 and #779.
Phillip Compare
In 1966 they stood at #144 and #122 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 1967 that had become #137 and #196.

Moved ahead of Padraic

Erin Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2859 and #1345.
Hudson Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2859 and #1761.
Arlo Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #2142.
Aria Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #2501.

Moved the opposite way to Padraic

Alexander Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Padraic went from #204 to #657 while Alexander went from #116 to #40.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Padraic went from #204 to #657 while Benjamin went from #139 to #81.
Conor Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Padraic went from #204 to #657 while Conor went from #56 to #13.
Daniel Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Padraic went from #204 to #657 while Daniel went from #19 to #10.

Moved the same way as Padraic

Adrian Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Padraic went from #204 to #657 and Adrian from #65 to #225.
Alfred Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Padraic went from #204 to #657 and Alfred from #134 to #657.
Denis Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Padraic went from #204 to #657 and Denis from #21 to #178.
Edward Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Padraic went from #204 to #657 and Edward from #18 to #112.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #105 in Republic of Ireland in 1985. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Padraic

Padraic at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Padraic across 3 official records

Padraic by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Padraic appears in

Popularity data

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Padraic at a glance

Padraic across 3 official records

Padraic by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Padraic appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Padraic and the names beside it

Padraic moved ahead of

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