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Girls' name · peaked in 1999

Paola name popularity since 1925

24,644 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Paola (99.4% girls, 0.6% boys). Half of them were born in 2003 or earlier, so the typical Paola is about 23 years old in 2026. Paola peaked in 1999 as the #301 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925
24,644
Named Paola, 1925–2025
Peak year
1999
#301 for girls that year
Typical age
About 23
Median birth year 2003
In 2025
Not top 1,000
#1,260 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys
99.4% girls
24,496 girls · 148 boys
Most popular in
California
3.20× its national share

Peak year is the year Paola made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Paola births per year, 1925–2025

Babies named Paola per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year by count was 2006. Measured as a share of all babies, Paola peaked in 1999.

  • Fastest rise: Between 1990 and 1995, Paola became 3.1× more common, from 1 in 5,820 baby girls to 1 in 1,910.
  • Steepest fall: Between 2008 and 2013, its share of baby girls fell by 52%, from 1 in 1,980 to 1 in 4,140.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Paola's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Paola.

Decade by decade

Babies named Paola in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade GirlsBoys Rank
1925–29 00 –
1930s 00 Under 5
1940s 00 Under 5
1950s 440 #6,482
1960s 2170 #2,391
1970s 6190 #1,583
1980s 1,65737 #891
1990s 6,37772 #302
2000s 9,87739 #309
2010s 4,2590 #738
2020–25 1,4460 #1,260

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

57.8% of babies named Paola from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:

Paola by generation Baby Boomers born 1946–64 0.5% Gen X born 1965–80 3.4% Millennials born 1981–96 22.5% Gen Z born 1997–2012 57.8% Gen Alpha born 2013–25 15.8%

Where Paola is most popular

The index compares Paola's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Paola.

StateIndexBabies
California3.20×7,746
Texas2.84×5,085
Arizona2.82×836
Florida1.97×1,622
Colorado1.29×364

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Paola's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Paola.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Paola (1999).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data