Pau is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Paul, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Pau: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,928 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,928 in 2018; #6,353 in 2025. About 74% of babies named Pau in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,353 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,928.
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Pau: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,928 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 41 (2018).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Pau, making it the 6,353rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,827 places from #4,526 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 23 boys named Pau in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,928, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 41. For comparison, it was #3,960 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Pau, making it the 16,672nd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #13,756, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pau in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 6 babies. In all, 454 US babies have been given the name, 5.1% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 274 babies named Pau.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 254 US boys were named Pau; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Paul (1,404,135 babies since 1880), Pablo (50,439 babies since 1880), Paulo (5,031 babies since 1880) and Paolo (3,739 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 Catalan. 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 Pau in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,672 | 14 | #6,353 |
| 2024 | — | — | 23 | #4,526 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,200 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,879 | 26 | #4,161 |
| 2021 | — | — | 21 | #4,736 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,940 | 21 | #4,664 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,548 |
| 2018 | — | — | 41 | #2,928 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,756 | 33 | #3,427 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,282 |
| 2015 | — | — | 27 | #3,960 |
| 2014 | — | — | 23 | #4,359 |
| 2013 | — | — | 21 | #4,574 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,779 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,621 |
| 2010 | — | — | 17 | #5,414 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,342 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #8,138 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #13,881 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #12,261 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,656 |
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).