Pa
Pa was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 1,343 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Pa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 32 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,302, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
103 babies in 1992, the peak
Pa peaked in 1992, when 103 girls were given it, #1,526 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #19,302 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,957 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,823 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,463 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,687 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,009 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,265 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,168 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,407 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,579 | 28.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 57 | #2,331 | 32.5 |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,872 | 42.6 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,679 | 49.8 |
| 1993 | 85 | #1,744 | 47.0 |
| 1992 | 103 | #1,526 | 55.9 |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,588 | 51.2 |
| 1990 | 91 | #1,637 | 47.9 |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,566 | 48.8 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,762 | 40.4 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,979 | 32.8 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,855 | 35.6 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,344 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,918 | 32.7 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,063 | 29.3 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,316 | 25.4 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,703 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,924 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,551 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pa has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 28 years of records.
Girls and boys named Pa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pa, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,343 Americans ever recorded as Pa. The median Pa alive today is 35 years old; half are between 32 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 3,153 people named Pa (2,052 women and girls, 1,101 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,318 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 194 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Pa born?
The states with the most babies named Pa are California, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 511 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Minnesota | 312 | not ranked | 11.8× |
| Wisconsin | 268 | not ranked | 9.9× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Pa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pa is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1979 it was given 11.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pa and names like it
- Compare Pa and BrittaneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sPa peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pa since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Pa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Pa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.