Padraic is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Padraic has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Padraic. That means that a boy named Padraic is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Padraic.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Padraic. Boys named Padraic have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,491 Padraic ranked higher than ever before in 1982. By comparison, there have been 78 years in which the first name Padraic has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Padraic only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Padraic was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Padraic. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 67 Americans who bear this name. And these 67 men and boys named Padraic live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Padraic lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Padraic and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Padraic relative to its male population is Massachusetts. And even there, only one male in 341,759 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Padraic.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Padraic has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Padraic and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Padraic, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Dinosaur
Rocket
Apple
Igloo
Cat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Padraic
Padraic
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
D
R
A
I
C
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
A
D
R
A
I
C
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Padraic sounds like this:
