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Pa

Girls' name

Flower

Pa has been given to 1,343 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 103 recorded.

Babies named Pa, 2006

1 in 791,000

Pa over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pa: meaning, origin, and history

Flower

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pa means

Pa means “flower”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pa is used in Hmong.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,338 girls were recorded with the name Pa between 1979 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 103 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,526 in 1992.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Pa between 1990 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1990; its best national rank was #9,118 in 1990.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Pa?

Pa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pa was born before 1991 — so the typical Pa is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
53.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,338
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (710).

Is Pa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (103)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,526
1992

Where Pa is used

Across 1910–2025, Pa was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 25,779 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 9,091
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 12,500
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pa around the world

Where Pa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1978–1994
    #3,595
    in 1994

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Pa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,526
1992
Peak year
1992
103 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
1,338
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,118
1990
Peak year
1990
5 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Pa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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