Pau
About 454 American babies have been named Pau since 1989, most of them around 2018. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 450 Paus are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Pau boys named Pau
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 454
- Estimated living today
- 450
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 2,893rd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1989
- Girls / boys
- 23 / 431
How old the living Paus are
born that year still alive today
Of the 454 babies given the name since 1989, about 450 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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.
Notable Paus
- Pau Casals (1876–1973)Spanish cellist, conductor and composer
- Pau Gasol (born 1980)Spanish basketball player
- Pau Cubarsí (born 2007)Spanish footballer
- Pau Torres (born 1997)Spanish association football player
- Pau López (born 1994)Spanish association football player
- Pau Claris (1586–1641)Catalan politician
- Pau Víctor (born 2001)Spanish soccer player
- Pau Gargallo (1881–1934)Spanish sculptor and painter
People named Pau with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Pau is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Pau is most concentrated in Oklahoma (64.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Pau peaked:
Pau elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Pau | 23,716 | 36th |
| France boys | Pau | 45 | 5,516th |
| Switzerland boys | Pau | 32 | 1,226th |
| England and Wales boys | Pau | 32 | 3,040th |
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.
Pau: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Pau | 22 | 0.002% | 1,087th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Pau | 8 | 0.002% | 727th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Pau | 2 | 0.003% | 184th |
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.
Pau: rank by region
In 2024, Pau was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illes Balears | Pau | 2 | 75 |
| Cataluña | Pau | 9 | 304 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Spain after 10 names – 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.
Pau by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Pau 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 boys | Pau | 10 | 15 |
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 Pau lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 35,499 men called Pau and 295 women called Pau were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Pau | 3,118 | 7.489 | 15 |
| Lleida | Pau | 1,518 | 6.447 | 21 |
| Tarragona | Pau | 2,701 | 6.162 | 26 |
| Barcelona | Pau | 16,158 | 5.540 | 35 |
| Balears, Illes | Pau | 2,913 | 4.678 | 38 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Pau | 1,275 | 4.085 | 49 |
Listed in 45 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 7 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valencia/València | Pau | 171 | 0.121 | 597 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Pau | 17 | 0.054 | 1,175 |
| Lleida | Pau | 10 | 0.045 | 1,322 |
| Balears, Illes | Pau | 16 | 0.026 | 2,088 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Pau | 23 | 0.022 | 2,269 |
| Tarragona | Pau | 9 | 0.021 | 2,273 |
Listed in 7 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 45 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Pau 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.