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Paloma: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 343 in 2025. Its best rank was #703 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #703 in 2010; #793 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Paloma in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#793 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #703.
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Paloma: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 343 girls in 2025. Peak: #703 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 411 (2009).
In 2025, 343 US girls were named Paloma, making it the 793rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 176 places from #969 in 2024. That is 75 more than the 268 girls named Paloma in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #703, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 411, in 2009. For comparison, it was #903 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paloma in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 6 babies. In all, 10,765 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,230 babies named Paloma.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,922 US girls were named Paloma; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 343. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,686 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Paloma ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #288 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 6 | #288 | — |
| California | 78 | #430 | #436 |
| Illinois | 23 | #466 | #845 |
| Washington | 14 | #507 | #1,074 |
| Arizona | 14 | #509 | #598 |
| Oregon | 7 | #530 | — |
| Texas | 58 | #551 | #610 |
| Nevada | 5 | #585 | — |
| Florida | 25 | #687 | #856 |
| Colorado | 7 | #772 | #855 |
| Utah | 5 | #805 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #886 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #962 | #976 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,009 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,087 | #1,582 |
| New York | 13 | #1,136 | #808 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,145 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,164 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,264 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,641 | #1,635 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 343 | #793 | — | — |
| 2024 | 268 | #969 | — | — |
| 2023 | 266 | #972 | — | — |
| 2022 | 281 | #957 | — | — |
| 2021 | 309 | #883 | — | — |
| 2020 | 274 | #940 | — | — |
| 2019 | 290 | #915 | — | — |
| 2018 | 298 | #904 | — | — |
| 2017 | 303 | #892 | — | — |
| 2016 | 290 | #946 | — | — |
| 2015 | 306 | #903 | — | — |
| 2014 | 314 | #871 | — | — |
| 2013 | 359 | #759 | — | — |
| 2012 | 346 | #788 | — | — |
| 2011 | 317 | #834 | — | — |
| 2010 | 407 | #703 | — | — |
| 2009 | 411 | #706 | — | — |
| 2008 | 377 | #779 | — | — |
| 2007 | 329 | #857 | — | — |
| 2006 | 317 | #847 | — | — |
| 2005 | 303 | #838 | — | — |
| 2004 | 289 | #853 | — | — |
| 2003 | 281 | #861 | — | — |
| 2002 | 241 | #932 | — | — |
| 2001 | 272 | #841 | — | — |
| 2000 | 245 | #898 | — | — |
| 1999 | 203 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1998 | 207 | #979 | — | — |
| 1997 | 217 | #921 | — | — |
| 1996 | 201 | #960 | — | — |
| 1995 | 184 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1994 | 194 | #960 | — | — |
| 1993 | 188 | #988 | — | — |
| 1992 | 186 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1991 | 159 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1990 | 138 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1989 | 118 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1988 | 89 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1987 | 71 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1986 | 91 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 1984 | 84 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,170 | — | — |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,304 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,646 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,489 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,800 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,321 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,687 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,617 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,963 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).