Palestine
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Palestine has been given to 169 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1942, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Palestine, 1957
1 in 700,000
Palestine over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Palestine?
Palestine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1957, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1957
- 1 in 700,000
- 6 of 4,201,368 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 341,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1957
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 485,362 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Palestine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1957 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 485,362 children born in 1957 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Palestine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Palestines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Palestine was born before 1931 — so the typical Palestine is around 94 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 29.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Palestine 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 1942 (12)
- Years since peak
- 83
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.8% average annual change
Spellings of Palestine
Palestine is not the most common spelling — Celestine is, with 80.3% against Palestine's 1.4%.
Palestine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Palestine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Palestine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.