Paolo
#1,992 for boys in 2025, 76 births
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 57 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,739since 1910
Paolo over time
Rank among boys' names. Paolo has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,992 | 76 |
| 2024 | #2,444 | 56 |
| 2023 | #2,014 | 75 |
| 2022 | #2,117 | 70 |
| 2021 | #2,193 | 64 |
| 2020 | #2,505 | 51 |
| 2019 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #2,189 | 63 |
| 2017 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2016 | #2,184 | 62 |
| 2015 | #2,300 | 57 |
| 2014 | #2,044 | 69 |
| 2013 | #2,278 | 56 |
| 2012 | #1,832 | 80 |
| 2011 | #1,905 | 73 |
| 2010 | #1,868 | 77 |
| 2009 | #1,562 | 104 |
| 2008 | #1,603 | 98 |
| 2007 | #1,380 | 119 |
| 2006 | #1,467 | 104 |
| 2005 | #1,442 | 102 |
| 2004 | #1,309 | 113 |
| 2003 | #1,400 | 95 |
| 2002 | #1,305 | 102 |
| 2001 | #1,429 | 87 |
| 2000 | #1,448 | 85 |
| 1999 | #1,395 | 84 |
| 1998 | #1,536 | 70 |
| 1997 | #1,672 | 59 |
| 1996 | #1,434 | 72 |
| 1995 | #1,491 | 64 |
| 1994 | #1,516 | 62 |
| 1993 | #1,620 | 55 |
| 1992 | #1,731 | 49 |
| 1991 | #1,359 | 69 |
| 1990 | #1,486 | 58 |
| 1989 | #1,382 | 63 |
| 1988 | #1,671 | 42 |
| 1987 | #1,734 | 38 |
| 1986 | #1,662 | 38 |
| 1985 | #1,214 | 61 |
| 1984 | #1,507 | 41 |
| 1983 | #1,205 | 57 |
| 1982 | #1,622 | 37 |
| 1981 | #1,500 | 41 |
| 1980 | #1,655 | 35 |
| 1979 | #1,788 | 31 |
| 1978 | #1,834 | 28 |
| 1977 | #1,431 | 41 |
| 1976 | #1,748 | 29 |
| 1975 | #1,884 | 25 |
| 1974 | #1,546 | 32 |
| 1973 | #1,268 | 42 |
| 1972 | #1,262 | 43 |
| 1971 | #1,560 | 31 |
| 1970 | #1,260 | 43 |
| 1969 | #1,440 | 31 |
| 1968 | #1,339 | 33 |
| 1967 | #1,507 | 26 |
| 1966 | #1,580 | 24 |
| 1965 | #1,625 | 23 |
| 1964 | #1,700 | 22 |
| 1963 | #1,957 | 17 |
| 1962 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1961 | #2,148 | 15 |
| 1960 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
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| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
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| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
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| 1914 | #3,264 | 5 |
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| 1910 | #1,589 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Paolo! It came in at #1,589, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1910–1919, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Paolo is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#633 · 1 in 6,785
- New York#706 · 1 in 6,568
- Pennsylvania#989 · 1 in 12,842
- Florida#1,035 · 1 in 11,682
Best ever in a state: #302 in Connecticut, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #633 | 37 | 1 in 6,785 |
| New York | #706 | 17 | 1 in 6,568 |
| Pennsylvania | #989 | 5 | 1 in 12,842 |
| Florida | #1,035 | 8 | 1 in 11,682 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Paolo
- 452 spots since 2024 (#2,444 → #1,992)
- 513 spots since 2020 (#2,505 → #1,992)
- 308 spots since 2015 (#2,300 → #1,992)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1983 at #1,205 (57 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,440 boys born in 2007 were named Paolo (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,205 in 1983, was only 1 in 31,448 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.0% of all boys named Paolo (1,009) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 10 | #1,589 (1910) | #2,427 |
| 1920s | 22 | #3,708 (1926) | #4,038 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 15 | #2,821 (1959) | #3,190 |
| 1960s | 218 | #1,339 (1968) | #1,794 |
| 1970s | 345 | #1,260 (1970) | #1,558 |
| 1980s | 453 | #1,205 (1983) | #1,515 |
| 1990s | 642 | #1,359 (1991) | #1,524 |
| 2000s | 1,009 | #1,305 (2002) | #1,435 |
| 2010s | 633 | #1,832 (2012) | #2,205 |
| 2020s | 392 | #1,992 (2025) | #2,211 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Paolo in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 20,793 of them was named Paolo, which outranked 89.0% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,391Mauro96
- #1,391Mykel96
- #1,391Youssef96
- #1,400Paolo95
- #1,400Chester95
- #1,400Dakoda95
- #1,400Domonic95
- #1,410Brantley94
- #1,410Dereck94
- #1,410Ely94
Tied with 9 names at #1,400; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.