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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Paddy

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

248

peak year 1934

More common than

76%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1934
28 births
Best rank
#1,397
in 1934
First recorded
1928
#5,270 that year
Last recorded
1959
no later published record
Average birth year
1941
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
24 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 193428#1,397Peak
  2. 193325#1,506
  3. 193620#1,730
  4. 193516#2,079
  5. 194214#2,515

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,397 in 1934 · peak births 28 in 1934

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 27% boys■ 73% girls

93 boys · 248 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Paddy has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.