Meaning not yet researched.
Paulo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 110 in 2025. Its best rank was #935 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #935 in 1973; #1,559 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Paulo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,559 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #935.
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Paulo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 110 boys in 2025. Peak: #935 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 122 (2006).
In 2025, 110 US boys were named Paulo, making it the 1,559th most common boys’ name of the year, up 47 places from #1,606 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 107 boys named Paulo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #935, reached in 1973. The most boys given the name in a single year was 122, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,102 in 2015 and #2,179 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paulo in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 7 babies. In all, 5,031 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 921 babies named Paulo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 896 US boys were named Paulo; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 111. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,528 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Paulo ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #871 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 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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Paulo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #871 | #1,239 |
| California | 23 | #985 | #1,042 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,388 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,436 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 110 | #1,559 |
| 2024 | — | — | 107 | #1,606 |
| 2023 | — | — | 111 | #1,572 |
| 2022 | — | — | 93 | #1,779 |
| 2021 | — | — | 85 | #1,833 |
| 2020 | — | — | 100 | #1,618 |
| 2019 | — | — | 68 | #2,125 |
| 2018 | — | — | 88 | #1,757 |
| 2017 | — | — | 71 | #2,012 |
| 2016 | — | — | 63 | #2,182 |
| 2015 | — | — | 67 | #2,102 |
| 2014 | — | — | 74 | #1,955 |
| 2013 | — | — | 74 | #1,910 |
| 2012 | — | — | 66 | #2,086 |
| 2011 | — | — | 91 | #1,665 |
| 2010 | — | — | 72 | #1,951 |
| 2009 | — | — | 85 | #1,785 |
| 2008 | — | — | 90 | #1,704 |
| 2007 | — | — | 90 | #1,694 |
| 2006 | — | — | 122 | #1,344 |
| 2005 | — | — | 121 | #1,281 |
| 2004 | — | — | 89 | #1,513 |
| 2003 | — | — | 88 | #1,488 |
| 2002 | — | — | 90 | #1,440 |
| 2001 | — | — | 77 | #1,571 |
| 2000 | — | — | 69 | #1,679 |
| 1999 | — | — | 66 | #1,638 |
| 1998 | — | — | 74 | #1,497 |
| 1997 | — | — | 62 | #1,641 |
| 1996 | — | — | 61 | #1,608 |
| 1995 | — | — | 81 | #1,310 |
| 1994 | — | — | 58 | #1,598 |
| 1993 | — | — | 55 | #1,634 |
| 1992 | — | — | 57 | #1,563 |
| 1991 | — | — | 77 | #1,277 |
| 1990 | — | — | 58 | #1,496 |
| 1989 | — | — | 55 | #1,510 |
| 1988 | — | — | 45 | #1,611 |
| 1987 | — | — | 57 | #1,312 |
| 1986 | — | — | 49 | #1,429 |
| 1985 | — | — | 61 | #1,225 |
| 1984 | — | — | 62 | #1,163 |
| 1983 | — | — | 64 | #1,124 |
| 1982 | — | — | 72 | #1,079 |
| 1981 | — | — | 83 | #1,000 |
| 1980 | — | — | 79 | #1,020 |
| 1979 | — | — | 84 | #972 |
| 1978 | — | — | 75 | #1,003 |
| 1977 | — | — | 61 | #1,118 |
| 1976 | — | — | 78 | #945 |
| 1975 | — | — | 68 | #999 |
| 1974 | — | — | 65 | #1,024 |
| 1973 | — | — | 75 | #935 |
| 1972 | — | — | 60 | #1,045 |
| 1971 | — | — | 72 | #962 |
| 1970 | — | — | 51 | #1,164 |
| 1969 | — | — | 35 | #1,373 |
| 1968 | — | — | 28 | #1,499 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,437 |
| 1966 | — | — | 26 | #1,535 |
| 1965 | — | — | 19 | #1,845 |
| 1964 | — | — | 26 | #1,566 |
| 1963 | — | — | 18 | #1,945 |
| 1962 | — | — | 23 | #1,702 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,659 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #3,025 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,510 |
| 1958 | — | — | 13 | #2,338 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,603 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,748 |
| 1955 | — | — | 16 | #2,028 |
| 1954 | — | — | 15 | #2,095 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,670 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,469 |
| 1951 | — | — | 15 | #2,026 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,179 |
| 1949 | — | — | 24 | #1,536 |
| 1948 | — | — | 20 | #1,696 |
| 1947 | — | — | 13 | #2,227 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,653 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,356 |
| 1944 | — | — | 15 | #1,865 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,371 |
| 1942 | — | — | 10 | #2,487 |
| 1941 | — | — | 18 | #1,672 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,626 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,408 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,156 |
| 1937 | — | — | 15 | #1,896 |
| 1936 | — | — | 11 | #2,263 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,216 |
| 1934 | — | — | 18 | #1,718 |
| 1933 | — | — | 11 | #2,330 |
| 1932 | — | — | 14 | #2,069 |
| 1931 | — | — | 17 | #1,823 |
| 1930 | — | — | 20 | #1,684 |
| 1929 | — | — | 21 | #1,661 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,294 |
| 1927 | — | — | 20 | #1,783 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,861 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,160 |
| 1924 | — | — | 16 | #2,113 |
| 1923 | — | — | 18 | #1,926 |
| 1922 | — | — | 17 | #2,015 |
| 1921 | — | — | 15 | #2,240 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,166 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,300 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,894 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,794 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,257 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,440 |
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).