Paolo
Paolo was given to 76 boys in 2025, #2,003 among boys’ names; 3,739 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,560 Americans named Paolo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paolo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Paolo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Paolo is “a male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Paul.”
Borrowed from Italian Paolo. Doublet of Paul.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Paolo?
#2,003 among boys’ names, 2025
Paolo rose from #2,320 in 2015 to #2,003 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 29.7 to 44.5 per million.
119 babies in 2007, the peak
Paolo peaked in 2007, when 119 boys were given it, #1,383 among boys’ names. The 76 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,003 | 44.5 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,464 | 32.5 |
| 2023 | 75 | #2,024 | 43.8 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,126 | 40.1 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,212 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 51 | #2,533 | 29.5 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,317 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,203 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,209 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,200 | 32.7 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #2,320 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,054 | 35.9 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,296 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 80 | #1,842 | 42.2 |
| 2011 | 73 | #1,916 | 38.4 |
| 2010 | 77 | #1,876 | 40.1 |
| 2009 | 104 | #1,571 | 52.4 |
| 2008 | 98 | #1,608 | 48.0 |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,383 | 57.3 |
| 2006 | 104 | #1,478 | 50.6 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,449 | 51.1 |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,313 | 56.9 |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,406 | 48.1 |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,311 | 52.5 |
| 2001 | 87 | #1,435 | 44.8 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,456 | 43.3 |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,401 | 43.7 |
| 1998 | 70 | #1,540 | 36.6 |
| 1997 | 59 | #1,685 | 31.3 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,438 | 38.0 |
| 1995 | 64 | #1,500 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 62 | #1,522 | 32.1 |
| 1993 | 55 | #1,628 | 28.0 |
| 1992 | 49 | #1,738 | 24.5 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,360 | 34.2 |
| 1990 | 58 | #1,490 | 28.2 |
| 1989 | 63 | #1,384 | 31.5 |
| 1988 | 42 | #1,692 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 38 | #1,747 | 20.4 |
| 1986 | 38 | #1,682 | 20.6 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,223 | 33.0 |
| 1984 | 41 | #1,521 | 22.7 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,216 | 31.8 |
| 1982 | 37 | #1,640 | 20.4 |
| 1981 | 41 | #1,514 | 22.9 |
| 1980 | 35 | #1,684 | 19.6 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,822 | 18.0 |
| 1978 | 28 | #1,858 | 17.1 |
| 1977 | 41 | #1,444 | 25.0 |
| 1976 | 29 | #1,772 | 18.5 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,930 | 16.0 |
| 1974 | 32 | #1,573 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,287 | 26.9 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,279 | 26.5 |
| 1971 | 31 | #1,587 | 17.5 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,272 | 23.1 |
| 1969 | 31 | #1,459 | 17.3 |
| 1968 | 33 | #1,357 | 19.0 |
| 1967 | 26 | #1,531 | 14.9 |
| 1966 | 24 | #1,604 | 13.5 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,658 | 12.4 |
| 1964 | 22 | #1,721 | 11.0 |
| 1963 | 17 | #2,022 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 17 | #2,012 | 8.2 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,212 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,814 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,982 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,826 | 2.8 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,073 | 5.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,798 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,813 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,160 | 5.6 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,621 | 7.6 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,784 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Paolo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paolo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Paolo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paolo, and how old are they?
3,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,739 Americans ever recorded as Paolo. The median Paolo alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 6,323 people named Paolo (63 women and girls, 6,260 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 74 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 457 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 806 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 789 |
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 Paolo born?
The states with the most babies named Paolo are Florida, California and Texas, with 89% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 21 | #748 | 1.3× |
| California | 11 | #1,557 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,035 | 0.6× |
| New York | 5 | #1,974 | 2.3× |
Where Paolo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Paolo is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.3 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 boys’ 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 Paolo 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 8,770 babies since 1880, Paolo is the second most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 76 of their 186 babies (41%), 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 Paolo
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 Paolo and names like it
- Compare Paolo and PauloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPaolo peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paolo since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Paolo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Paolo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Paolo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.