Girl's name
Pádraigín
“PAW-drig-een”
Pádraig with the diminutive -ín: 'little Pádraig'
The story behind the name
It began as a boy's pet name, little Pádraig. Wikipedia notes that the ending later came to mark a girl's name instead, and Pádraigín became the Irish form of Patricia.
Famous people with this name
- Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin (born 1950) — Irish singer and musician
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Pádraigín on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
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