Palmina
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Palmina has been given to 273 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1928, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Palmina, 1946
1 in 639,000
Palmina 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Palmina?
Palmina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1946, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1946
- 1 in 639,000
- 5 of 3,195,175 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 314,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1946
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 442,946 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Palmina sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1946 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 442,946 children born in 1946 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Palmina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Palminas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Palmina was born before 1924 — so the typical Palmina is around 101 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 45.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (123).
Is Palmina 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1928 (18)
- Years since peak
- 97
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.6% average annual change
Spellings of Palmina
Palmina is not the most common spelling — Alaina is, with 26.6% against Palmina's 0.14%.
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 Palmina is used
Across 1910–2025, Palmina was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 326,783 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Massachusetts1 in —
- 2New Jersey1 in —
- 3New York1 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. Palmina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Palmina around the world
Where Palmina 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.
- France1912–1962#1,179in 1962
- South Australia1958–1976#645in 1976
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Palmina by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Palmina
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Palmina
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.