Paola
#1,258 for girls in 2025, 178 births · Last seen for boys in 2007 at #9,788
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 1,027 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 24,496since 1950
Paola over time
Rank among girls' names. Paola has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,258 | 178 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,077 | 230 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,073 | 231 | — | |
| 2022 | #984 | 269 | — | |
| 2021 | #962 | 270 | — | |
| 2020 | #953 | 268 | — | |
| 2019 | #933 | 283 | — | |
| 2018 | #960 | 275 | — | |
| 2017 | #823 | 331 | — | |
| 2016 | #842 | 338 | — | |
| 2015 | #736 | 383 | — | |
| 2014 | #680 | 418 | — | |
| 2013 | #672 | 424 | — | |
| 2012 | #579 | 507 | — | |
| 2011 | #480 | 620 | — | |
| 2010 | #454 | 680 | — | |
| 2009 | #382 | 853 | — | |
| 2008 | #350 | 954 | — | |
| 2007 | #328 | 1,021 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #302 | 1,089 | — | |
| 2005 | #309 | 1,041 | — | |
| 2004 | #342 | 936 | — | |
| 2003 | #329 | 952 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #310 | 1,000 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #307 | 1,040 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #320 | 991 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #300 | 1,027 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #354 | 812 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #398 | 656 | — | |
| 1996 | #379 | 701 | — | |
| 1995 | #302 | 921 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #353 | 747 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #584 | 402 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #490 | 500 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #728 | 285 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #664 | 326 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #762 | 256 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #852 | 210 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #878 | 193 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #885 | 187 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #886 | 180 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #927 | 160 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #917 | 163 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,262 | 102 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,122 | 123 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,460 | 83 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,283 | 99 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,231 | 101 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,380 | 81 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,619 | 61 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,571 | 63 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,937 | 44 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,890 | 44 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,709 | 53 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,203 | 36 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,134 | 35 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,630 | 23 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,980 | 35 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,839 | 19 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,345 | 26 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,000 | 18 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,780 | 20 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,161 | 16 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,085 | 15 | — | |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | — | |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Paola! It came in at #5,301, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Paola is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#407 · 1 in 2,564
- New York#477 · 1 in 3,390
- Arizona#592 · 1 in 3,904
- Texas#599 · 1 in 4,540
- Florida#628 · 1 in 5,110
Best ever in a state: #117 in District of Columbia, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #407 | 81 | 1 in 2,564 |
| New York | #477 | 32 | 1 in 3,390 |
| Arizona | #592 | 6 | 1 in 3,904 |
| Texas | #599 | 29 | 1 in 4,540 |
| Florida | #628 | 13 | 1 in 5,110 |
| New Jersey | #739 | 6 | 1 in 6,999 |
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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 Paola
- 181 spots since 2024 (#1,077 → #1,258)
- 305 spots since 2020 (#953 → #1,258)
- 522 spots since 2015 (#736 → #1,258)
- Biggest jump: 345 spots in 1983 (#1,262 → #917)
- Biggest drop: 137 spots in 2018 (#823 → #960)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1999 at #300 (1,027 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1983–2022
- Highest: 1 in 1,727 girls born in 1999 were named Paola (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,030 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.3% of all girls named Paola (9,877) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 44 | #3,085 (1958) | #4,903 |
| 1960s | 217 | #1,980 (1967) | #2,817 |
| 1970s | 619 | #1,231 (1978) | #1,695 |
| 1980s | 1,657 | #762 (1989) | #995 |
| 1990s | 6,377 | #300 (1999) | #455 |
| 2000s | 9,877 | #302 (2006) | #328 |
| 2010s | 4,259 | #454 (2010) | #716 |
| 2020s | 1,446 | #953 (2020) | #1,051 |
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.
Paola in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 9,174 of them was named Paola, which outranked 93.1% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 368,303 of them was named Paola, which outranked 14.2% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,109 names at #6,721; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.