Pal — boys' name

What the Data Says About Pal

The Social Security Administration has registered 187 babies named Pal between 1917 and 2014, spanning 98 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Pal currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Pal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 15 additional births since 2007.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pal performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 58 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Pal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Pal in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 187 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.