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Paul

Pronounced /pɔl/

Rank in 2024
#263
Born in 2024
1,320
Peak year
1957 · #18
Origin
Latin
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,320 boys were named Paul, about 1 in every 1,299.
  • It peaked in 1957 with 27,012 babies, ranked #18.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 1,396,943 boys have been named Paul since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Paul per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 11.7
    Greatest
  2. 12.0
    Silent
  3. 12.5
    Boomers
  4. 9.6
    Gen X
  5. 4.5
    Millennials
  6. 1.6
    Gen Z
  7. 0.9
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 196,358 babies, 11.74 per 1,000. Silent: 248,020 babies, 12.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 468,512 babies, 12.48 per 1,000. Gen X: 262,104 babies, 9.63 per 1,000. Millennials: 138,415 babies, 4.55 per 1,000. Gen Z: 50,215 babies, 1.60 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 19,654 babies, 0.90 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Learned borrowing from Latin Paulus, from paulus (“small”). Doublet of Pablo and Paolo.

  • A male given name from Latin [in turn originating from the Bible], feminine equivalent Paula, Paulette, Paulina, and Pauline
Origin
Latin
Say it
/pɔl/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Paul, CC BY-SA 4.0.