Pahola
Pahola was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 193 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pahola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pahola?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,458, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1993, the peak
Pahola peaked in 1993, when 18 girls were given it, #5,371 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,458 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,597 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,618 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,122 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,202 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,932 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,609 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,582 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,743 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,345 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 | #9,911 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,413 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,194 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,668 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,720 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,268 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,420 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,961 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,371 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,895 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,135 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,892 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pahola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pahola has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pahola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pahola, and how old are they?
An estimated 190 Americans named Pahola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 276 people named Pahola (275 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 306,868 babies since 1880, Pahola is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 496 babies recorded by SSA was a Pahola (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pahola
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 Pahola and names like it
- Compare Pahola and PaulaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sPahola peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pahola since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Pahola.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Pahola alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.