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Palmira

Girls' name

Feminine form of Palmiro

Palmira has been given to 852 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 1924, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Palmira, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Palmira: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Palmiro

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Palmira means

Palmira is a feminine form of Palmiro.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Palmira is used in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /pal.ˈmi.ra/, /pal.ˈmi.ɾa/, /paɫ.ˈmi.ɾɐ/ and /paw.ˈmi.ɾɐ/ for Palmira.

Origin, language, and formation

Palmira is used in Portuguese.

Palmira comes through Latin Palmȳra and Ancient Greek Παλμύρα.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Palmiro.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Palmira is pronounced /pawˈmi.ɾɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 852 girls were recorded with the name Palmira between 1911 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,854 in 1916.

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 Palmira?

Palmira had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Palmira 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Palmira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Palmiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Palmira was born before 1952 — so the typical Palmira is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
445
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1920s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (143).

Is Palmira 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 1924 (20)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,854
1916

Spellings of Palmira

Palmira is not the most common spelling — Amira is, with 41.2% against Palmira's 1.4%.

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 Palmira is used

Across 1910–2025, Palmira was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 192,975 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4New 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. Palmira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Palmira around the world

Where Palmira 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
    1909–2009
    #6,643
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1956–1972
    #722
    in 1972

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.

Palmira 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
#1,854
1916
Peak year
1924
20 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
852
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Palmira

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

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Sibling names for Palmira

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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