Paola
Paola is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 229 births. Its best rank was 301st, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2290.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 20061,089 births
- Best rank
- #301in 1999
- Since 1950
- 24,314people given the name
The story in the numbers
24,314 girls have been named Paola in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 1,089 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 41%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2006, its biggest year
Paola was the 302nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2006 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Paola
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kyrapeak 2005
- Shaylinpeak 2003
- Savannapeak 2006
- Ashlinpeak 2007
- Kayleypeak 1999
- Kyleapeak 2003
- Yasminpeak 2006
- Emilipeak 2006
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.