Peadar

maleStatistical record

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

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

Peadar: Recorded every year since 1965, it reached #142 in 2022, and it stood at #232 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
87times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#142highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Peadar's record

Ranked every year since 1965, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Moved 106 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move

Region

Rising

among boys in Northern Ireland · 1997–2024

View as table

Northern Ireland · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#210
1999	#168
2000	#224
2001	#243
2002	#281
2003	#229
2005	#231
2006	#282
2007	#276
2008	#217
2009	#232
2010	#188
2011	#291
2012	#217
2013	#237
2014	#243
2015	#259
2016	#281
2017	#179
2018	#151
2019	#209
2020	#213
2021	#200
2022	#142
2023	#181
2024	#187

VerifiedSource: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names.Confidence: high.

See all Northern Ireland names · Source: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names

What the data shows

RisingNorthern Ireland · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in every year from 1965 to 2025.

In 2024: #187 among boys in Northern Ireland, #231 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1965–2025 · NISRA. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1965
First recorded at #167 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1965 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #142 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2022 (recorded 1997–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #232 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Peadar appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 61 years beginning in 1965, and has registered 598 births with the name.

Peadar across 2 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.

Peadar'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	#167 (1965)	#166 (1984)	#232 (2025)	61 of 61	598 (1965–2025)	21 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#210 (1997)	#142 (2022)	#187 (2024)	26 of 28	218 (1997–2024)	17 (2022)

Peadar 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 Peadar in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	32	5 of 10	6
1970s	79	10 of 10	8
1980s	104	10 of 10	10
1990s	71	10 of 10	7
2000s	68	10 of 10	7
2010s	134	10 of 10	13
2020sbusiest	110	6 of 10	18

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 18 births a year.

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

Peadar 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 2 regions, from 1965 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #142 in Northern Ireland in 2022.

Peadar'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
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#187	11	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#181	12	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#142	17	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#200	11	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#213	9	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#209	10	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#151	16	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#179	13	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#281	6	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#259	7	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#243	8	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#237	8	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#217	9	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#291	5	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#188	12	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#232	8	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#217	9	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#276	5	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#231	6	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#229	5	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#281	3	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#243	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#224	5	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#168	9	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#210	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#232	20	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#231	19	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	15	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	19	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#232	21	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#280	16	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#237	20	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#269	17	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#317	13	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#389	9	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#345	12	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#347	12	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#352	11	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#401	9	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#272	18	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#322	13	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#337	11	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#386	9	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#435	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#295	10	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#343	7	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#322	7	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#348	5	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#347	4	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#379	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#242	6	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#233	10	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#261	7	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#301	4	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#263	5	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#213	9	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	8	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#216	8	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#193	11	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#208	8	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#215	7	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#177	14	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#203	10	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#185	11	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#166	15	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#202	10	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#223	8	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#206	10	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#205	11	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#218	9	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	4	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#273	5	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#167	18	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#236	7	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#218	9	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#238	7	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#207	9	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#280	4	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#219	7	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#246	5	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#207	6	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#196	7	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#219	5	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#167	9	High	Verified

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 2 registrars between 1965 and 2025, ranked in 61 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #142, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 32 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.

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Pearl · #204, 53y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Joyce · #144, 62y
Marcella · #138, 60y
Vivi · #127, 57y
Marguerite · #161, 58y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

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

Clifford · #142, 51y
Diarmaid · #142, 50y
Beata · #141, 49y
Joyce · #144, 62y

Peadar was ranked #142 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2022. 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.

Peadar 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 Peadar without appearing here.

Peadar moved ahead of

Gary Compare
In 2016 they stood at #281 and #281 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2017 that had become #179 and #415.
Simon Compare
In 2016 they stood at #259 and #259 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2017 that had become #179 and #415.
Brendan Compare
In 2020 they stood at #213 and #213 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2021 that had become #200 and #433.
Calum Compare
In 2021 they stood at #200 and #192 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #142 and #352.

Moved ahead of Peadar

Archie Compare
In 2011 they stood at #272 and #326 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #401 and #188.
Mason Compare
In 2006 they stood at #295 and #493 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #435 and #241.
Cooper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #272 and #623 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #401 and #233.
Tommy Compare
In 2010 they stood at #188 and #267 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2011 that had become #291 and #149.

Moved the same way as Peadar

Craig Compare
Between 1965 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Peadar went from #167 to #288 and Craig from #250 to #516.
Graham Compare
Between 1965 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Peadar went from #167 to #288 and Graham from #137 to #770.
Geoffrey Compare
Between 1965 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Peadar went from #167 to #251 and Geoffrey from #137 to #779.
Ashley Compare
Between 1967 and 2020 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Peadar went from #196 to #280 and Ashley from #142 to #637.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 2 regions, from 1965 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #142 in Northern Ireland in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Peadar

Peadar at a glance

What stands out in Peadar's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Peadar across 2 official records

Peadar by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Peadar appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Peadar at a glance

What stands out in Peadar's record

Peadar across 2 official records

Peadar by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Peadar appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Peadar

Peadar and the names beside it

Peadar moved ahead of

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