Pádraig

Pádraig
Origin
Gender	Male
Word/name	Irish
Meaning	Noble
Region of origin	Ireland
Other names
Variant form(s)	Pádhraig, Pádraic, Pá(dh)raic, Padraigh^{[citation needed]}, Páiric^{[citation needed]}
Related names	Patrick

Pádraig or Pádraic (English: /ˈpɔː(d)rɪɡ, -rɪk/ PAW-(d)rig, -⁠rik, Irish: [ˈpˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ, -əc]),^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] also Pádhraig or Pádhraic (/ˈpɔːrɪɡ, -rɪk/ PAW-rig, -⁠rik, Irish: [ˈpˠaːɾˠəɟ, -əc]), are Irish male given names deriving from the Latin Patricius, meaning "of the patrician class", introduced via the name of Saint Patrick. The name is often anglicised as its English language equivalent Patrick or phonetically, e.g. Pauric.

Diminutives include Páidín, Páidí (both anglicised as 'Paudeen' and 'Paddy', respectively), and the feminine equivalent Pádraigín (little Patrick), which was originally an exclusively masculine name before later being viewed as the Irish equivalent of the feminine name Patricia. Pádraig is also sometimes anglicised as Paddy or Podge; the former anglicisation is often used, sometimes pejoratively, as a term for Irish people as a whole.

The Scottish Gaelic forms are Pàdraig (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈpʰaːt̪ɾɪkʲ]) or Pàra (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈpʰaːɾə]) for short (cf. Para Handy).

Notable people

Liam Pádraic Aiken (born 1990), American actor
Pádraig Amond (born 1988), Irish footballer
Pádraig de Brún (1889–1960), Irish clergyman, mathematician and classical scholar
Pádraig Clancy, Gaelic football player from County Laois in Ireland
Padraic Colum (1881–1972), author
Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún (1777–1857), Irish poet
Pádraic Delaney (born 1977), Irish actor
Pádraig Duggan (born Pádraig Ó Dúgáin, 1949–2016), Irish musician
Padraic Fallon (1905–1974), Irish poet
Pádraig Faulkner (1918–2012), Irish politician
Pádraig Flynn (born 1939), Irish politician
Pádraig Harrington (born 1971), professional golfer
Pádraig Horan (born 1950), Irish hurler
Pádraig Hughes, Gaelic football referee
Pádraic Mahony (born 1992), Irish hurler
Pádraic McCormack (born 1942), Irish politician
Pádraic McMahon, musician in the band The Thrills
Padraig Parkinson, Irish professional poker player
Pádraic Pearse (1879–1916), Irish activist/revolutionary (also known as Patrick Henry Pearse or Pádraig Pearse)

References

^ Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6.
^ Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
^ Quiggin (1906). A Dialect of Donegal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 132–137.
^ "PÁDRAIC, PÁDHRAIC, PÁDRAIG, PÁDHRAIG - Irish Names and Surnames". www.libraryireland.com. Retrieved 14 October 2023.