Paradise
Paradise was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,843 among girls’ names; 1,273 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Paradise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paradise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Paradise?
#4,843 among girls’ names, 2025
Paradise fell from #4,687 in 2015 to #4,843 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 17.4 per million.
55 babies in 2019, the peak
Paradise peaked in 2019, when 55 girls were given it, #2,986 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,843 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,451 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,342 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,154 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,719 | 25.0 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,723 | 24.7 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,986 | 32.8 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,332 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,289 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,217 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,687 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,526 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,063 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,633 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,646 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,472 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,453 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,617 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,204 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,404 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,244 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,251 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,855 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,043 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,650 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,049 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,983 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,277 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,784 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,223 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,459 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,510 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,955 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,185 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,329 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,754 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,398 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,808 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,260 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,992 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,628 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,764 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Paradise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paradise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Paradise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paradise, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,273 Americans ever recorded as Paradise. The median Paradise alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 820 people named Paradise (780 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,047 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 185 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 571 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 494 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Paradise
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 Paradise and names like it
- Compare Paradise and HaneenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sParadise peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paradise since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Paradise.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Paradise alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.