Paloma
Paloma is a girl's name that peaked in 2009, when it was the 705th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 792nd. About 11,000 Palomas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Paloma
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,765
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 705th
- Rank in 2025
- 792nd
- First recorded
- 1921
How old the living Palomas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,765 babies given the name since 1921, about 11,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 5,700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Spanish Paloma.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Palomas
- Paloma Faith (born 1981)British singer
- Paloma Ruiz Picasso (born 1949)French/Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman
- Blanca Paloma (born 1989)Spanish singer
- Paloma San Basilio (born 1950)Spanish singer
- Paloma Costa (born 1992)Brazilian socioenvironmentalist, cycling activist, climate educator and youth mobiliser
- Paloma Baeza (born 1975)British actress, director
- Paloma Kwiatkowski (born 1994)Canadian actress
- Paloma Herrera (born 1975)ballet dancer
People named Paloma with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Paloma is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Paloma is most concentrated in Arizona (3.9×), California (3.7×), Texas (2.9×), Colorado (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular girls’ names the year Paloma peaked:
Paloma elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Paloma | 7,995 | 166th |
| England and Wales girls | Paloma | 784 | 542nd |
| Spain girls | Paloma | 781 | 79th |
| Belgium girls | Paloma | 225 | 398th |
| Switzerland girls | Paloma | 164 | 476th |
| Poland girls | Paloma | 22 birth registrations | 268th |
| Ireland girls | Paloma | 10 | 747th |
| Scotland girls | Paloma | 6 | 749th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Paloma: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Paloma | 53 | 0.004% | 538th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Paloma | 106 | 0.024% | 174th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Paloma | 5 | 0.008% | 152nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Paloma is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 39 of them.
Paloma: rank by region
In 2025, Paloma was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Paloma | 656 | 7 |
| Wallonia | Paloma | 210 | 13 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Paloma by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 8 | 392nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Paloma among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Paloma | 61 | 183 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Paloma lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 30,944 women called Paloma were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madrid | Paloma | 13,699 | 3.696 | 52 |
| Guadalajara | Paloma | 293 | 2.085 | 99 |
| Ávila | Paloma | 161 | 2.013 | 103 |
| Toledo | Paloma | 738 | 1.965 | 108 |
| Segovia | Paloma | 141 | 1.789 | 118 |
| Málaga | Paloma | 1,440 | 1.571 | 105 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Paloma against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.