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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Paola” in the USA?

Number of people named “Paola” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Paola” 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 “Paola” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Paola” by birth year

This chart shows how “Paola” 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
1950 5 0.000001427 5 100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1958 15 0.000003629 15 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 100%
1961 13 0.000003138 13 100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 100%
1963 20 0.000005053 20 100%
1964 18 0.00000463 18 100%
1965 26 0.000007172 26 100%
1966 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1967 34 0.000010015 34 100%
1968 23 0.000006808 23 100%
1969 35 0.000010071 35 100%
1970 36 0.000009982 36 100%
1971 53 0.000015441 53 100%
1972 44 0.000013999 44 100%
1973 37 0.000012264 37 100%
1974 44 0.000014474 44 100%
1975 63 0.000020865 63 100%
1976 61 0.000020103 61 100%
1977 81 0.0000255 81 100%
1978 101 0.000031822 101 100%
1979 99 0.000029757 99 100%
1980 83 0.000024096 83 100%
1981 123 0.000035556 123 100%
1982 102 0.000029077 102 100%
1983 163 0.000047064 163 100%
1984 166 0.000047581 160 6 93%
1985 185 0.000051834 180 5 95%
1986 192 0.000053977 187 5 95%
1987 198 0.000054914 193 5 95%
1988 215 0.000058186 210 5 95%
1989 267 0.000069451 256 11 92%
1990 336 0.00008501 326 10 94%
1991 294 0.000075476 285 9 94%
1992 505 0.000131467 500 5 98%
1993 409 0.00010848 402 7 97%
1994 758 0.000203892 747 11 97%
1995 934 0.000255041 921 13 97%
1996 700 0.000191928 700 100%
1997 656 0.000180928 656 100%
1998 819 0.000222663 812 7 98%
1999 1037 0.000280736 1027 10 98%
2000 998 0.000264028 991 7 99%
2001 1048 0.00027996 1040 8 98%
2002 1010 0.000270177 1000 10 98%
2003 959 0.000252214 952 7 99%
2004 936 0.000244967 936 100%
2005 1041 0.000270752 1041 100%
2006 1089 0.000275265 1089 100%
2007 1028 0.000257149 1021 7 99%
2008 954 0.000242707 954 100%
2009 853 0.000223288 853 100%
2010 680 0.000183996 680 100%
2011 620 0.000169501 620 100%
2012 507 0.000138624 507 100%
2013 424 0.000116302 424 100%
2014 418 0.000112779 418 100%
2015 383 0.000103488 383 100%
2016 338 0.000092131 338 100%
2017 331 0.000092556 331 100%
2018 275 0.000078216 275 100%
2019 283 0.000081534 283 100%
2020 267 0.000079926 267 100%
2021 270 0.000079694 270 100%
2022 269 0.000079512 269 100%
2023 231 0.000069763 231 100%
2024 229 0.0000688 229 100%

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