Paloma
#792 for girls in 2025, 343 births
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 407 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,765since 1921
Paloma over time
Rank among girls' names. Paloma has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #792 | 343 |
| 2024 | #968 | 268 |
| 2023 | #971 | 266 |
| 2022 | #955 | 281 |
| 2021 | #881 | 309 |
| 2020 | #937 | 274 |
| 2019 | #912 | 290 |
| 2018 | #903 | 298 |
| 2017 | #890 | 303 |
| 2016 | #944 | 290 |
| 2015 | #901 | 306 |
| 2014 | #870 | 314 |
| 2013 | #755 | 359 |
| 2012 | #788 | 346 |
| 2011 | #833 | 317 |
| 2010 | #700 | 407 |
| 2009 | #705 | 411 |
| 2008 | #778 | 377 |
| 2007 | #857 | 329 |
| 2006 | #847 | 317 |
| 2005 | #837 | 303 |
| 2004 | #850 | 289 |
| 2003 | #859 | 281 |
| 2002 | #931 | 241 |
| 2001 | #841 | 272 |
| 2000 | #895 | 245 |
| 1999 | #1,010 | 203 |
| 1998 | #975 | 207 |
| 1997 | #920 | 217 |
| 1996 | #957 | 201 |
| 1995 | #1,007 | 184 |
| 1994 | #956 | 194 |
| 1993 | #983 | 188 |
| 1992 | #1,010 | 186 |
| 1991 | #1,117 | 159 |
| 1990 | #1,219 | 138 |
| 1989 | #1,322 | 118 |
| 1988 | #1,513 | 89 |
| 1987 | #1,699 | 71 |
| 1986 | #1,405 | 91 |
| 1985 | #1,856 | 60 |
| 1984 | #1,388 | 84 |
| 1983 | #1,887 | 55 |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 58 |
| 1981 | #2,342 | 42 |
| 1980 | #2,866 | 31 |
| 1979 | #2,860 | 30 |
| 1978 | #3,098 | 25 |
| 1977 | #3,176 | 24 |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
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| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 |
| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Paloma! It came in at #4,464, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1922–1926, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Paloma is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#389 · 1 in 1,693
- Oregon#499 · 1 in 2,740
- Texas#511 · 1 in 3,052
- Arizona#581 · 1 in 3,246
- California#633 · 1 in 4,018
Best ever in a state: #249 in New Mexico, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Mexico | #389 | 5 | 1 in 1,693 |
| Oregon | #499 | 6 | 1 in 2,740 |
| Texas | #511 | 47 | 1 in 3,052 |
| Arizona | #581 | 9 | 1 in 3,246 |
| California | #633 | 55 | 1 in 4,018 |
| Illinois | #798 | 12 | 1 in 5,868 |
| New York | #843 | 16 | 1 in 6,295 |
| Florida | #1,214 | 7 | 1 in 10,611 |
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See more about Paloma
- 176 spots since 2024 (#968 → #792)
- 145 spots since 2020 (#937 → #792)
- 109 spots since 2015 (#901 → #792)
- Biggest jump: 176 spots in 2025 (#968 → #792)
- Biggest drop: 133 spots in 2011 (#700 → #833)
- Debuted 1921
- Peaked 2010 at #700 (407 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,368 girls born in 2010 were named Paloma (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,686 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 30.0% of all girls named Paloma (3,230) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 17 | #4,286 (1927) | #4,586 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 131 | #2,860 (1979) | #4,500 |
| 1980s | 699 | #1,322 (1989) | #1,813 |
| 1990s | 1,877 | #920 (1997) | #1,015 |
| 2000s | 3,065 | #705 (2009) | #840 |
| 2010s | 3,230 | #700 (2010) | #850 |
| 2020s | 1,741 | #792 (2025) | #917 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Paloma in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 8,536 of them was named Paloma, which outranked 94.1% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).