Paddy — unisex name

What the Data Says About Paddy

The Social Security Administration has registered 248 babies named Paddy between 1928 and 1959, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Paddy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1959. The name reached its historical peak in 1934, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Paddy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 93 additional births since 1929.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Paddy performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 129 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Paddy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Paddy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 248 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.