Meaning not yet researched.
Paola: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 178 in 2025. Its best rank was #301 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #301 in 1999; #1,260 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Paola in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,260 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #301.
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Paola: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 178 girls in 2025. Peak: #301 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 1,089 (2006).
In 2025, 178 US girls were named Paola, making it the 1,260th most common girls’ name of the year, down 179 places from #1,081 in 2024. That is 52 fewer than the 230 girls named Paola in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #301, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,089, in 2006. For comparison, it was #738 in 2015 and #5,900 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paola in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 24,644 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 9,916 babies named Paola.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,673 US girls were named Paola; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 338. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,030 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Paola ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #580 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Paula (281,769 babies since 1880), Pauline (227,179 babies since 1880), Paulette (47,152 babies since 1880) and Paulina (20,142 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Paola in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 31 | #580 | #565 |
| Texas | 39 | #775 | #406 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #840 | — |
| California | 34 | #875 | #464 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,096 | #655 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,178 | #484 |
| New York | 12 | #1,218 | #1,120 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,619 | #962 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 178 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 2024 | 230 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 2023 | 231 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 2022 | 269 | #985 | — | — |
| 2021 | 270 | #964 | — | — |
| 2020 | 268 | #956 | — | — |
| 2019 | 283 | #935 | — | — |
| 2018 | 275 | #963 | — | — |
| 2017 | 331 | #824 | — | — |
| 2016 | 338 | #843 | — | — |
| 2015 | 383 | #738 | — | — |
| 2014 | 418 | #680 | — | — |
| 2013 | 424 | #672 | — | — |
| 2012 | 507 | #580 | — | — |
| 2011 | 620 | #481 | — | — |
| 2010 | 680 | #454 | — | — |
| 2009 | 853 | #382 | — | — |
| 2008 | 954 | #350 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,021 | #328 | 7 | #10,602 |
| 2006 | 1,089 | #302 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,041 | #309 | — | — |
| 2004 | 936 | #342 | — | — |
| 2003 | 952 | #329 | 7 | #9,357 |
| 2002 | 1,000 | #310 | 10 | #6,917 |
| 2001 | 1,040 | #307 | 8 | #8,112 |
| 2000 | 991 | #320 | 7 | #8,881 |
| 1999 | 1,027 | #301 | 10 | #6,387 |
| 1998 | 812 | #354 | 7 | #8,218 |
| 1997 | 656 | #398 | — | — |
| 1996 | 701 | #379 | — | — |
| 1995 | 921 | #302 | 13 | #4,718 |
| 1994 | 747 | #353 | 11 | #5,358 |
| 1993 | 402 | #585 | 7 | #7,404 |
| 1992 | 500 | #490 | 5 | #9,438 |
| 1991 | 285 | #730 | 9 | #5,816 |
| 1990 | 326 | #665 | 10 | #5,275 |
| 1989 | 256 | #764 | 11 | #4,731 |
| 1988 | 210 | #856 | 5 | #8,189 |
| 1987 | 193 | #880 | 5 | #7,821 |
| 1986 | 187 | #885 | 5 | #7,525 |
| 1985 | 180 | #891 | 5 | #7,308 |
| 1984 | 160 | #928 | 6 | #6,123 |
| 1983 | 163 | #917 | — | — |
| 1982 | 102 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1981 | 123 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1980 | 83 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1979 | 99 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1978 | 101 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 1967 | 35 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,391 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,862 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,194 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,482 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,305 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,900 | — | — |
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).