Palma

Where Palma comes from

Palma hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1544
    Palma il Giovane born
    Venetian painter
  2. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,279 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1910
    Palma Bucarelli born
    first female Italian museum director and superintendent of 'National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art Rome'
  4. 1914
    Peak, #692
    69 babies named Palma — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,073.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Palma il Giovane · Venetian painter, 1544–1628
  • Palma Bucarelli · first female Italian museum director and superintendent of 'National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art Rome', 1910–1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.