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Pallas

Girls' name

To poise, sway, or swing

Pallas has been given to 98 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 2015, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Pallas, 2024

1 in 478,000

Pallas over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pallas: meaning, origin, and history

To poise, sway, or swing

Ancient Greek

What Pallas means

Pallas means “to poise, sway, or swing”, associated with pállō.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ancient Greek Παλλάς (Pallás) (f.) or Πάλλας (Pállas) (m.), from πάλλω (pállō, “to poise, sway, or swing”), but explained here by the ancients as more specifically meaning to brandish something. In Athena's conventional iconography, she was often depicted with a spear or a shield. Thus the epithet was explained as referring to her brandishing these things.

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Origin, language, and formation

Pallas is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Pallas comes through Ancient Greek Παλλάς.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Pallas is pronounced /ˈpæləs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 98 girls were recorded with the name Pallas between 1969 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2015; its best national rank was #8,318 in 1969.

How common is Pallas?

Pallas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pallas 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pallas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pallass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pallas was born before 2006 — so the typical Pallas is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
98
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Pallas 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2015 (11)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,318
1969

Spellings of Pallas

Pallas is not the most common spelling — Paula is, with 83.7% against Pallas's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Pallas 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
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Best rank ever
#8,318
1969
Peak year
2015
11 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
98
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pallas

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

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Sibling names for Pallas

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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