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The PADDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 416 47838 0 1
United States (1880 census) 63 43545 0 1
Change since 1880 +353 -4293 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 58 22588 0 4
United Kingdom 150 19461 0 3
Top States for PADDY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 118 4778 0.002 22
Louisiana 62 7474 0.001 14
New York 39 43285 0.000 2
Florida 22 60676 0.000 1
Texas 21 48345 0.000 1
Top States for PADDY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 118 4778 0.002 22
Louisiana 62 7474 0.001 14
Delaware 3 33665 0.000 4
Nevada 6 41549 0.000 3
New York 39 43285 0.000 2

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PADDY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PADDY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PADDY in Maryland than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PADDY by picking someone at random in Maryland than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PADDY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: Anglo-Saxon

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PADDY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PADDY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PADDY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 315 75.72
Black/African American 69 16.59
Native American/Alaskan 15 3.61
Mixed Race 9 2.16
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PADDY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PADDY in historical publications

PADDY. 1. Apparently an ancient personal name, whence the patrouymical Paddison, the local Padwick, Paddington, Padiham, Padley, Padworth, &c. 2. Perhaps the common nickname of Patrick.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PADDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PADDY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PADDY

The following words are slight variants of PADDY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.