Paloma — #969 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Paloma

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,416 babies named Paloma between 1921 and 2024, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Paloma currently holds the #969 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 411 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Paloma performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,230 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Paloma shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,196 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Paloma in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Paloma 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 10,416 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.