Palma
Palma was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,663 among girls’ names; 3,574 Americans have been recorded with it since 1889 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Palma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 66 and 81.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Palma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Palma?
#16,663 among girls’ names, 2025
Palma entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,663 in 2025.
100 babies in 1925, the peak
Palma peaked in 1925, when 100 girls were given it, #741 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,663 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,006 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,108 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,433 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,919 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,661 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,486 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,762 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,424 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,713 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | #8,404 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,464 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,499 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,865 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,417 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,413 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,161 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,843 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,362 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,898 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,800 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,287 | 14.5 |
| 1962 | 18 | #3,004 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,589 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,355 | 12.9 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,713 | 20.8 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,103 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,833 | 17.6 |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,610 | 21.9 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,721 | 18.9 |
| 1954 | 57 | #1,329 | 29.4 |
| 1953 | 57 | #1,294 | 30.3 |
| 1952 | 47 | #1,427 | 25.3 |
| 1951 | 44 | #1,427 | 24.4 |
| 1950 | 57 | #1,230 | 33.3 |
| 1949 | 73 | #1,053 | 42.7 |
| 1948 | 47 | #1,354 | 27.7 |
| 1947 | 53 | #1,249 | 29.9 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,352 | 26.7 |
| 1945 | 42 | #1,245 | 32.1 |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,248 | 30.9 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,138 | 36.6 |
| 1942 | 64 | #985 | 47.4 |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,287 | 29.8 |
| 1940 | 47 | #1,057 | 41.1 |
| 1939 | 43 | #1,095 | 39.2 |
| 1938 | 46 | #1,066 | 41.7 |
| 1937 | 39 | #1,158 | 36.7 |
| 1936 | 54 | #936 | 51.9 |
| 1935 | 64 | #865 | 61.0 |
| 1934 | 51 | #971 | 48.8 |
| 1933 | 50 | #982 | 49.6 |
| 1932 | 69 | #828 | 64.7 |
| 1931 | 68 | #837 | 63.9 |
| 1930 | 75 | #822 | 66.6 |
| 1929 | 68 | #867 | 60.9 |
| 1928 | 76 | #827 | 65.9 |
| 1927 | 85 | #791 | 71.3 |
| 1926 | 99 | #732 | 83.5 |
| 1925 | 100 | #741 | 82.1 |
| 1924 | 88 | #794 | 70.5 |
| 1923 | 97 | #745 | 80.4 |
| 1922 | 80 | #824 | 66.6 |
| 1921 | 96 | #748 | 77.9 |
| 1920 | 70 | #871 | 58.4 |
| 1919 | 92 | #732 | 81.4 |
| 1918 | 97 | #730 | 83.8 |
| 1917 | 96 | #706 | 88.8 |
| 1916 | 83 | #748 | 79.5 |
| 1915 | 84 | #729 | 85.4 |
| 1914 | 69 | #699 | 90.6 |
| 1913 | 32 | #959 | 51.2 |
| 1912 | 41 | #784 | 73.5 |
| 1911 | 21 | #977 | 50.2 |
| 1910 | 33 | #750 | 83.2 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,197 | 37.4 |
| 1908 | 21 | #877 | 62.8 |
| 1907 | 28 | #724 | 87.9 |
| 1906 | 18 | #892 | 61.0 |
| 1905 | 16 | #955 | 54.9 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,040 | 47.2 |
| 1903 | 19 | #804 | 72.5 |
| 1902 | 18 | #841 | 68.2 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,121 | 41.8 |
| 1900 | 18 | #914 | 60.0 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,165 | 38.6 |
| 1898 | 13 | #1,003 | 50.2 |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,023 | 47.0 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,541 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 19 | #738 | 81.3 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,116 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 10 | #1,008 | 47.0 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,304 | 32.3 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,439 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Palma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Palma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Palma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Palma, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 29% of the 3,574 Americans ever recorded as Palma. The median Palma alive today is 74 years old; half are between 66 and 81.
The 2020 Census counted 1,761 people named Palma (1,717 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,317 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 263 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 590 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 136 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 15 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
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 Palma born?
The states with the most babies named Palma are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 83% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 900 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 287 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 169 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Massachusetts | 67 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Connecticut | 54 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 40 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 28 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Dakota | 12 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Palma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Palma is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 3.0 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 Palma with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 14,339 babies since 1880, Palma is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 348 babies (1.4%), again the second most given.
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 Palma
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 Palma and names like it
- Compare Palma and PalomaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sPalma peaked in 1925.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Palma since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Palma.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Palma alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.