Paulo
Paulo was given to 110 boys in 2025, #1,559 among boys’ names; 5,031 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,410 Americans named Paulo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 14 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paulo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Paulo mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Paulo is “a male given name, variant of Pablo”
Borrowed from Latin Paulus. Doublet of Pablo.
/ˈpaulo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Paulo?
#1,559 among boys’ names, 2025
Paulo rose from #2,102 in 2015 to #1,559 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 35.0 to 64.4 per million.
122 babies in 2006, the peak
Paulo peaked in 2006, when 122 boys were given it, #1,344 among boys’ names. The 110 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 110 | #1,559 | 64.4 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,606 | 62.1 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,572 | 64.9 |
| 2022 | 93 | #1,779 | 53.3 |
| 2021 | 85 | #1,833 | 48.6 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,618 | 57.9 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,124 | 37.9 |
| 2018 | 88 | #1,757 | 48.5 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,012 | 38.4 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,182 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,102 | 35.0 |
| 2014 | 74 | #1,954 | 38.5 |
| 2013 | 74 | #1,909 | 39.1 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,085 | 34.8 |
| 2011 | 91 | #1,665 | 47.9 |
| 2010 | 72 | #1,950 | 37.5 |
| 2009 | 85 | #1,784 | 42.9 |
| 2008 | 90 | #1,704 | 44.1 |
| 2007 | 90 | #1,694 | 43.4 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,344 | 59.4 |
| 2005 | 121 | #1,280 | 60.6 |
| 2004 | 89 | #1,511 | 44.8 |
| 2003 | 88 | #1,485 | 44.5 |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,437 | 46.4 |
| 2001 | 77 | #1,567 | 39.6 |
| 2000 | 69 | #1,675 | 35.1 |
| 1999 | 66 | #1,635 | 34.4 |
| 1998 | 74 | #1,494 | 38.7 |
| 1997 | 62 | #1,638 | 32.9 |
| 1996 | 61 | #1,605 | 32.2 |
| 1995 | 81 | #1,305 | 42.5 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,593 | 30.0 |
| 1993 | 55 | #1,629 | 28.0 |
| 1992 | 57 | #1,558 | 28.5 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,271 | 38.1 |
| 1990 | 58 | #1,491 | 28.2 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,505 | 27.5 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,606 | 23.5 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,310 | 30.5 |
| 1986 | 49 | #1,428 | 26.6 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,224 | 33.0 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,162 | 34.4 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,124 | 35.7 |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,079 | 39.7 |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,000 | 46.3 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,020 | 44.3 |
| 1979 | 84 | #972 | 48.8 |
| 1978 | 75 | #1,003 | 45.7 |
| 1977 | 61 | #1,118 | 37.1 |
| 1976 | 78 | #945 | 49.7 |
| 1975 | 68 | #999 | 43.6 |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,024 | 41.3 |
| 1973 | 75 | #935 | 48.1 |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,045 | 37.0 |
| 1971 | 72 | #962 | 40.7 |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,164 | 27.4 |
| 1969 | 35 | #1,373 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 28 | #1,498 | 16.1 |
| 1967 | 29 | #1,436 | 16.6 |
| 1966 | 26 | #1,534 | 14.6 |
| 1965 | 19 | #1,844 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 26 | #1,565 | 13.0 |
| 1963 | 18 | #1,944 | 8.9 |
| 1962 | 23 | #1,701 | 11.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,658 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,024 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,509 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,337 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,602 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,747 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,027 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,094 | 7.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,669 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,468 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,025 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,178 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,535 | 13.5 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,695 | 11.4 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,226 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,652 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,355 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,864 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,370 | 7.7 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,486 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,672 | 14.7 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,626 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,408 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,156 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,896 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,263 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,216 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,718 | 17.4 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,329 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,069 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,823 | 16.4 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,684 | 18.2 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,661 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,292 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,783 | 17.7 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,859 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,159 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,113 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,925 | 16.4 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,014 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,239 | 13.6 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,164 | 5.6 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,299 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,893 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,793 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,255 | 5.9 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,439 | 13.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Paulo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paulo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Paulo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paulo, and how old are they?
4,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 5,031 Americans ever recorded as Paulo. The median Paulo alive today is 26 years old; half are between 14 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 11,111 people named Paulo (84 women and girls, 11,027 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,947 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 43 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 182 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 809 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 945 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,100 |
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 Paulo born?
The states with the most babies named Paulo are Texas, California and Illinois, with 92% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #871 | 2.8× |
| California | 23 | #985 | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,436 | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,388 | 0.0× |
Where Paulo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Paulo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1913 it was given 2.8 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 Paulo 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,847 babies since 1880, Paulo is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 110 of their 192 babies (57%), again the 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 Paulo
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 Paulo and names like it
- Compare Paulo and PaoloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPaulo peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paulo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Paulo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Paulo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Paulo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.