Palma — girls' name

What the Data Says About Palma

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,569 babies named Palma between 1889 and 2023, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Palma currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 100 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Palma performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 859 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Palma shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 900 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Palma in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Palma 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 3,569 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.