Palma
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1914 · 69 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,574since 1889
Palma over time
Rank among girls' names. Palma has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
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| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
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| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 |
| 1964 | #2,752 | 21 |
| 1963 | #2,252 | 28 |
| 1962 | #2,922 | 18 |
| 1961 | #2,543 | 23 |
| 1960 | #2,307 | 26 |
| 1959 | #1,695 | 42 |
| 1958 | #2,073 | 29 |
| 1957 | #1,808 | 36 |
| 1956 | #1,598 | 44 |
| 1955 | #1,691 | 37 |
| 1954 | #1,317 | 57 |
| 1953 | #1,288 | 57 |
| 1952 | #1,420 | 47 |
| 1951 | #1,415 | 44 |
| 1950 | #1,224 | 57 |
| 1949 | #1,050 | 73 |
| 1948 | #1,345 | 47 |
| 1947 | #1,238 | 53 |
| 1946 | #1,337 | 42 |
| 1945 | #1,232 | 42 |
| 1944 | #1,236 | 41 |
| 1943 | #1,124 | 51 |
| 1942 | #979 | 64 |
| 1941 | #1,271 | 36 |
| 1940 | #1,046 | 47 |
| 1939 | #1,091 | 43 |
| 1938 | #1,055 | 46 |
| 1937 | #1,144 | 39 |
| 1936 | #929 | 54 |
| 1935 | #861 | 64 |
| 1934 | #966 | 51 |
| 1933 | #973 | 50 |
| 1932 | #826 | 69 |
| 1931 | #830 | 68 |
| 1930 | #818 | 75 |
| 1929 | #861 | 68 |
| 1928 | #825 | 76 |
| 1927 | #786 | 85 |
| 1926 | #729 | 99 |
| 1925 | #736 | 100 |
| 1924 | #792 | 88 |
| 1923 | #741 | 97 |
| 1922 | #819 | 80 |
| 1921 | #747 | 96 |
| 1920 | #865 | 70 |
| 1919 | #728 | 92 |
| 1918 | #727 | 97 |
| 1917 | #703 | 96 |
| 1916 | #744 | 83 |
| 1915 | #724 | 84 |
| 1914 | #692 | 69 |
| 1913 | #946 | 32 |
| 1912 | #781 | 41 |
| 1911 | #958 | 21 |
| 1910 | #737 | 33 |
| 1909 | #1,152 | 13 |
| 1908 | #849 | 21 |
| 1907 | #710 | 28 |
| 1906 | #872 | 18 |
| 1905 | #926 | 16 |
| 1904 | #1,001 | 13 |
| 1903 | #789 | 19 |
| 1902 | #818 | 18 |
| 1901 | #1,067 | 10 |
| 1900 | #885 | 18 |
| 1899 | #1,099 | 9 |
| 1898 | #963 | 13 |
| 1897 | #982 | 11 |
| 1896 | #1,416 | 6 |
| 1895 | #725 | 19 |
| 1894 | #1,061 | 9 |
| 1893 | #955 | 10 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | #1,213 | 6 |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Palma! It came in at #1,279, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1890, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Palma is popular in 1930
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#264 · 1 in 2,941
- New York#321 · 1 in 3,835
- Pennsylvania#476 · 1 in 9,116
Best ever in a state: #150 in North Dakota, 1914.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #264 | 10 | 1 in 2,941 |
| New York | #321 | 25 | 1 in 3,835 |
| Pennsylvania | #476 | 9 | 1 in 9,116 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Palma
- Biggest jump: 434 spots in 1897 (#1,416 → #982)
- Biggest drop: 691 spots in 1896 (#725 → #1,416)
- Debuted 1889
- Peaked 1914 at #692 (69 births)
- Births halved by 1958, 44 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1910–1936
- Highest: 1 in 11,037 girls born in 1914 were named Palma (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.0% of all girls named Palma (859) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,279 (1889) | #1,279 |
| 1890s | 83 | #725 (1895) | #1,052 |
| 1900s | 174 | #710 (1907) | #907 |
| 1910s | 648 | #692 (1914) | #774 |
| 1920s | 859 | #729 (1926) | #790 |
| 1930s | 559 | #818 (1930) | #949 |
| 1940s | 496 | #979 (1942) | #1,186 |
| 1950s | 450 | #1,224 (1950) | #1,553 |
| 1960s | 189 | #2,252 (1963) | #3,163 |
| 1970s | 76 | #3,404 (1972) | #6,219 |
| 1980s | 10 | #10,275 (1983) | #10,800 |
| 1990s | 5 | #14,122 (1998) | #14,122 |
| 2000s | 10 | #15,432 (2002) | #15,766 |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 10 | #14,942 (2025) | #15,068 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Palma in 1930
Top girls' names in 1930
More about 1930
girls
1,125,927 girls got a published name in 1930; 1 in 15,012 of them was named Palma, which outranked 84.4% of the 5,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).