Paloma

Where Paloma comes from

From Spanish Paloma.
— Wiktionary's entry for Paloma
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1921
    First appearance
    #4,464 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1949
    Paloma Ruiz Picasso born
    French/Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman
  3. 1981
    Paloma Faith born
    British singer
  4. 2010
    Peak, #700
    407 babies named Paloma — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Paloma Faith · British singer, born 1981
  • Paloma Ruiz Picasso · French/Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman, born 1949
  • Paloma San Basilio · Spanish singer, born 1950
  • Paloma Costa · Brazilian socioenvironmentalist, cycling activist, climate educator and youth mobiliser, born 1992
  • Paloma Baeza · British actress, director, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.