Paulo
#1,554 for boys in 2025, 110 births
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 75 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,031since 1913
Paulo over time
Rank among boys' names. Paulo has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,554 | 110 |
| 2024 | #1,599 | 107 |
| 2023 | #1,567 | 111 |
| 2022 | #1,771 | 93 |
| 2021 | #1,823 | 85 |
| 2020 | #1,609 | 100 |
| 2019 | #2,110 | 68 |
| 2018 | #1,744 | 88 |
| 2017 | #2,003 | 71 |
| 2016 | #2,167 | 63 |
| 2015 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2014 | #1,945 | 74 |
| 2013 | #1,903 | 74 |
| 2012 | #2,066 | 66 |
| 2011 | #1,656 | 91 |
| 2010 | #1,940 | 72 |
| 2009 | #1,774 | 85 |
| 2008 | #1,692 | 90 |
| 2007 | #1,681 | 90 |
| 2006 | #1,339 | 122 |
| 2005 | #1,280 | 121 |
| 2004 | #1,502 | 89 |
| 2003 | #1,478 | 88 |
| 2002 | #1,433 | 90 |
| 2001 | #1,564 | 77 |
| 2000 | #1,666 | 69 |
| 1999 | #1,624 | 66 |
| 1998 | #1,488 | 74 |
| 1997 | #1,628 | 62 |
| 1996 | #1,599 | 61 |
| 1995 | #1,307 | 81 |
| 1994 | #1,581 | 58 |
| 1993 | #1,620 | 55 |
| 1992 | #1,546 | 57 |
| 1991 | #1,273 | 77 |
| 1990 | #1,486 | 58 |
| 1989 | #1,492 | 55 |
| 1988 | #1,592 | 45 |
| 1987 | #1,295 | 57 |
| 1986 | #1,419 | 49 |
| 1985 | #1,214 | 61 |
| 1984 | #1,154 | 62 |
| 1983 | #1,120 | 64 |
| 1982 | #1,072 | 72 |
| 1981 | #995 | 83 |
| 1980 | #1,019 | 79 |
| 1979 | #965 | 84 |
| 1978 | #996 | 75 |
| 1977 | #1,113 | 61 |
| 1976 | #942 | 78 |
| 1975 | #994 | 68 |
| 1974 | #1,019 | 65 |
| 1973 | #932 | 75 |
| 1972 | #1,040 | 60 |
| 1971 | #958 | 72 |
| 1970 | #1,159 | 51 |
| 1969 | #1,351 | 35 |
| 1968 | #1,478 | 28 |
| 1967 | #1,411 | 29 |
| 1966 | #1,510 | 26 |
| 1965 | #1,806 | 19 |
| 1964 | #1,545 | 26 |
| 1963 | #1,902 | 18 |
| 1962 | #1,669 | 23 |
| 1961 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1957 | #2,494 | 11 |
| 1956 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | #1,979 | 16 |
| 1954 | #2,044 | 15 |
| 1953 | #2,531 | 10 |
| 1952 | #2,376 | 11 |
| 1951 | #1,972 | 15 |
| 1950 | #2,111 | 13 |
| 1949 | #1,501 | 24 |
| 1948 | #1,656 | 20 |
| 1947 | #2,169 | 13 |
| 1946 | #2,534 | 9 |
| 1945 | #2,242 | 10 |
| 1944 | #1,810 | 15 |
| 1943 | #2,277 | 11 |
| 1942 | #2,386 | 10 |
| 1941 | #1,633 | 18 |
| 1940 | #2,478 | 9 |
| 1939 | #2,288 | 10 |
| 1938 | #2,084 | 12 |
| 1937 | #1,828 | 15 |
| 1936 | #2,184 | 11 |
| 1935 | #2,127 | 12 |
| 1934 | #1,658 | 18 |
| 1933 | #2,214 | 11 |
| 1932 | #1,995 | 14 |
| 1931 | #1,770 | 17 |
| 1930 | #1,644 | 20 |
| 1929 | #1,611 | 21 |
| 1928 | #3,076 | 8 |
| 1927 | #1,748 | 20 |
| 1926 | #2,725 | 10 |
| 1925 | #2,089 | 15 |
| 1924 | #2,043 | 16 |
| 1923 | #1,874 | 18 |
| 1922 | #1,952 | 17 |
| 1921 | #2,152 | 15 |
| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,096 | 8 |
| 1917 | #2,732 | 9 |
| 1916 | #3,516 | 6 |
| 1915 | #3,825 | 5 |
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| 1913 | #2,273 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Paulo! It came in at #2,273, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1915, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Paulo is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#914 · 1 in 6,527
- California#960 · 1 in 8,223
- Texas#1,308 · 1 in 11,914
- New York#1,593 · 1 in 14,529
Best ever in a state: #106 in Rhode Island, 1973.
Show every state
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| Arizona | #914 | 5 | 1 in 6,527 |
| California | #960 | 23 | 1 in 8,223 |
| Texas | #1,308 | 15 | 1 in 11,914 |
| New York | #1,593 | 6 | 1 in 14,529 |
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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 Paulo
- 45 spots since 2024 (#1,599 → #1,554)
- 55 spots since 2020 (#1,609 → #1,554)
- 532 spots since 2015 (#2,086 → #1,554)
- Biggest jump: 201 spots in 1971 (#1,159 → #958)
- Biggest drop: 171 spots in 1977 (#942 → #1,113)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1973 at #932 (75 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1975–1976
- Highest: 1 in 15,411 boys born in 2023 were named Paulo (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,528 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #932 in 1973, was only 1 in 20,781 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 18.3% of all boys named Paulo (921) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 35 | #2,273 (1913) | #3,088 |
| 1920s | 146 | #1,611 (1929) | #2,309 |
| 1930s | 140 | #1,644 (1930) | #1,979 |
| 1940s | 139 | #1,501 (1949) | #2,069 |
| 1950s | 121 | #1,972 (1951) | #2,369 |
| 1960s | 224 | #1,351 (1969) | #1,808 |
| 1970s | 689 | #932 (1973) | #1,012 |
| 1980s | 627 | #995 (1981) | #1,237 |
| 1990s | 649 | #1,273 (1991) | #1,515 |
| 2000s | 921 | #1,280 (2005) | #1,541 |
| 2010s | 734 | #1,656 (2011) | #1,962 |
| 2020s | 606 | #1,554 (2025) | #1,654 |
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.
Paulo in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 18,774 of them was named Paulo, which outranked 87.6% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #1,771Paulo93
- #1,771Amani93
- #1,771Ayce93
- #1,771Hagen93
- #1,782Avrohom92
- #1,782Braylin92
- #1,782Dashiell92
Tied with 10 names at #1,771; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.