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Pádraig

Pádraig m

Irish Gaelic form of PATRICK (SEE Patrick).

Variant: Páraic (found in Connacht).

Cognates: Scottish Gaelic: Pàdraig (used as a secular form of PETER (SEE Peter)); Pàra, Pàdair (dialectal forms).

Pet forms: Irish Gaelic: Páidín (Anglicized as Paudeen). Scottish Gaelic: Pàidean (from which comes the surname Mac Phàidein, Anglicized as MacFadyen).

First names dictionary. 2012.