Meaning not yet researched.
Paolo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 76 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,216 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,216 in 1983; #2,003 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Paolo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,003 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #1,216.
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Paolo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 76 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,216 in 1983 · most boys in one year: 119 (2007).
In 2025, 76 US boys were named Paolo, making it the 2,003rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 461 places from #2,464 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 56 boys named Paolo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,216, reached in 1983. The most boys given the name in a single year was 119, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,321 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paolo in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 3,739 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,009 babies named Paolo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 613 US boys were named Paolo; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Paolo ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #748 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Paul (1,404,135 babies since 1880), Pablo (50,439 babies since 1880) and Paulo (5,031 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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Paolo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 21 | #748 | #951 |
| California | 11 | #1,557 | #1,519 |
| New York | 5 | #1,974 | #2,030 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,035 | #1,878 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 76 | #2,003 |
| 2024 | — | — | 56 | #2,464 |
| 2023 | — | — | 75 | #2,025 |
| 2022 | — | — | 70 | #2,127 |
| 2021 | — | — | 64 | #2,213 |
| 2020 | — | — | 51 | #2,534 |
| 2019 | — | — | 35 | #3,320 |
| 2018 | — | — | 63 | #2,204 |
| 2017 | — | — | 61 | #2,210 |
| 2016 | — | — | 62 | #2,200 |
| 2015 | — | — | 57 | #2,321 |
| 2014 | — | — | 69 | #2,055 |
| 2013 | — | — | 56 | #2,297 |
| 2012 | — | — | 80 | #1,843 |
| 2011 | — | — | 73 | #1,917 |
| 2010 | — | — | 77 | #1,877 |
| 2009 | — | — | 104 | #1,572 |
| 2008 | — | — | 98 | #1,608 |
| 2007 | — | — | 119 | #1,383 |
| 2006 | — | — | 104 | #1,478 |
| 2005 | — | — | 102 | #1,450 |
| 2004 | — | — | 113 | #1,315 |
| 2003 | — | — | 95 | #1,408 |
| 2002 | — | — | 102 | #1,314 |
| 2001 | — | — | 87 | #1,439 |
| 2000 | — | — | 85 | #1,460 |
| 1999 | — | — | 84 | #1,404 |
| 1998 | — | — | 70 | #1,543 |
| 1997 | — | — | 59 | #1,688 |
| 1996 | — | — | 72 | #1,440 |
| 1995 | — | — | 64 | #1,505 |
| 1994 | — | — | 62 | #1,527 |
| 1993 | — | — | 55 | #1,633 |
| 1992 | — | — | 49 | #1,743 |
| 1991 | — | — | 69 | #1,366 |
| 1990 | — | — | 58 | #1,495 |
| 1989 | — | — | 63 | #1,389 |
| 1988 | — | — | 42 | #1,697 |
| 1987 | — | — | 38 | #1,749 |
| 1986 | — | — | 38 | #1,683 |
| 1985 | — | — | 61 | #1,224 |
| 1984 | — | — | 41 | #1,522 |
| 1983 | — | — | 57 | #1,216 |
| 1982 | — | — | 37 | #1,641 |
| 1981 | — | — | 41 | #1,515 |
| 1980 | — | — | 35 | #1,684 |
| 1979 | — | — | 31 | #1,822 |
| 1978 | — | — | 28 | #1,858 |
| 1977 | — | — | 41 | #1,444 |
| 1976 | — | — | 29 | #1,773 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,931 |
| 1974 | — | — | 32 | #1,573 |
| 1973 | — | — | 42 | #1,287 |
| 1972 | — | — | 43 | #1,279 |
| 1971 | — | — | 31 | #1,588 |
| 1970 | — | — | 43 | #1,272 |
| 1969 | — | — | 31 | #1,459 |
| 1968 | — | — | 33 | #1,357 |
| 1967 | — | — | 26 | #1,532 |
| 1966 | — | — | 24 | #1,605 |
| 1965 | — | — | 23 | #1,659 |
| 1964 | — | — | 22 | #1,722 |
| 1963 | — | — | 17 | #2,023 |
| 1962 | — | — | 17 | #2,013 |
| 1961 | — | — | 15 | #2,213 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,815 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,983 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,827 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,075 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,800 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,815 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,162 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,622 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,785 |
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).