Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Paloma” in the USA?

Number of people named “Paloma” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Paloma” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Paloma” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Paloma” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Paloma” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Paloma” by birth year

This chart shows how “Paloma” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1921 6 0.00000257 6 100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 100%
1977 24 0.000007555 24 100%
1978 25 0.000007877 25 100%
1979 30 0.000009017 30 100%
1980 31 0.000009 31 100%
1981 42 0.000012141 42 100%
1982 58 0.000016534 58 100%
1983 55 0.000015881 55 100%
1984 84 0.000024077 84 100%
1985 60 0.000016811 60 100%
1986 91 0.000025583 91 100%
1987 71 0.000019692 71 100%
1988 89 0.000024086 89 100%
1989 118 0.000030694 118 100%
1990 138 0.000034915 138 100%
1991 159 0.000040819 159 100%
1992 186 0.000048421 186 100%
1993 188 0.000049864 188 100%
1994 194 0.000052183 194 100%
1995 184 0.000050244 184 100%
1996 201 0.000055111 201 100%
1997 216 0.000059574 216 100%
1998 207 0.000056277 207 100%
1999 202 0.000054685 202 100%
2000 245 0.000064816 245 100%
2001 272 0.000072661 272 100%
2002 241 0.000064468 241 100%
2003 281 0.000073902 281 100%
2004 289 0.000075636 289 100%
2005 303 0.000078807 303 100%
2006 317 0.000080128 317 100%
2007 329 0.000082298 329 100%
2008 377 0.000095913 377 100%
2009 411 0.000107587 411 100%
2010 407 0.000110127 407 100%
2011 317 0.000086664 317 100%
2012 346 0.000094604 346 100%
2013 359 0.000098473 359 100%
2014 314 0.000084719 314 100%
2015 306 0.000082682 306 100%
2016 290 0.000079047 290 100%
2017 303 0.000084727 303 100%
2018 298 0.000084758 298 100%
2019 290 0.000083551 290 100%
2020 273 0.000081722 273 100%
2021 309 0.000091206 309 100%
2022 280 0.000082763 280 100%
2023 265 0.000080032 265 100%
2024 267 0.000080216 267 100%

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