Paulo

Where Paulo comes from

Paulo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,273 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1947
    Paulo Coelho born
    Brazilian lyricist and novelist
  3. 1973
    Peak, #932
    75 babies named Paulo — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1993
    Paulo Dybala born
    Argentine association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Paulo Coelho · Brazilian lyricist and novelist, born 1947
  • Paulo Dybala · Argentine association football player, born 1993
  • Paulo Freire · lawyer, college teacher, author, 1921–1997
  • Paulo Ferreira · Portuguese footballer, born 1979
  • Paulo Futre · Portuguese association football player, born 1966

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.