Paola

Where Paola comes from

Borrowed from Italian Paola.
— Wiktionary's entry for Paola
  • Italian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #5,301 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Paola Cortellesi born
    Italian actress and singer
  3. 1976
    Paola Suárez born
    Argentine tennis player
  4. 1999
    Peak, #300
    1,027 babies named Paola — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #579.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Italian.
Namesakes
  • Paola Suárez · Argentine tennis player, born 1976
  • Paola Cortellesi · Italian actress and singer, born 1973
  • Paola Egonu · Italian volleyball player, born 1998
  • Paola Núñez · Mexican actress, born 1978
  • Paola Rey · Colombian actress and model, born 1983

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.