Name Awesome

Palma

#16,663 in 2025Girls' name

Palm tree

Palma has been given to 3,574 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #16,663 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1925, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Palma, 2025

1 in 663,000

Palma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Palma: meaning, origin, and history

Palm tree

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Palma means

Palma means “palm tree”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Palma is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpal.ma/ for Palma.

Origin, language, and formation

Palma is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,574 girls were recorded with the name Palma between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 1925; its best national rank was #699 in 1914.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Palma?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,663
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Palma 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Palma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Palmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Palma was born before 1930 — so the typical Palma is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.56%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
750
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (859).

Is Palma 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
—
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
5.0%
Peak was 1925 (100)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#699
1914

Spellings of Palma

Palma is not the most common spelling — Paula is, with 25.2% against Palma's 0.32%.

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.

Where Palma is used

Across 1910–2025, Palma was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 47,093 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 25,000
  3. 3Connecticut1 in 33,333
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Dakota1 in 50,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 100,000

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. Palma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Palma around the world

Where Palma 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.

  • England & Wales
    2020–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • France
    1901–2025
    #3,324
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1945–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Palma

People whose public names include Palma, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Palma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,663
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#699
1914
Peak year
1925
100 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,574
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Palma

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

VilmaPalmerPalomaZulmaSalmaHilmaZelmaSelmaDelmaNelmaPalakElmaTelmaIlmaPalmiraBelmaHelmaWylmaPalinVelmaSulmaValmaPalynWilma

Names with a curve like Palma

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Palma, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LavernaRosiaBernardineRomaineAlberthaArdellaReathaVelvaLaurineEleaseWalterCorene

Sibling names for Palma

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

Explore around Palma

Top names of 1925, Palma's peak yearThe 1920s in fullOther names that peaked in 1914Girls' names starting with PUncommon Hungarian Girl Names