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Paolo

#2,003 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Paulus

Paolo has been given to 3,739 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #2,003 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Paolo, 2025

1 in 43,600

Paolo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paolo: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Paulus

Italian and Latin

What Paolo means

Paolo is a form of Paulus.

Origin, language, and formation

Paolo is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Italian and Latin.

Paolo comes through Italian Paolo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Paulus and Paul.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Paolo is pronounced /ˈpa.o.lo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,739 boys were recorded with the name Paolo between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,216 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,533 in 2020 to #2,003 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,320 in 2015 to #2,003 in 2025.

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 Paolo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,600
76 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 22,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,003
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,237 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Paolo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,237 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paolo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paolos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Paolo was born before 2001 — so the typical Paolo is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,707
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (1,009).

Is Paolo 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
+461
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+530
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+317
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.9%
Peak was 2007 (119)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,216
1983

Spellings of Paolo

Paolo is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 92.7% against Paolo's 0.25%.

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 Paolo is used

Across 1910–2025, Paolo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 44,060 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 25,000
  3. 3New York1 in 25,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Paolo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Paolo around the world

Where Paolo 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
    1996–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1986–2019
    #701
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2009–2009
    #390
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    1982–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1912–2025
    #236
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Paolo

People whose public names include Paolo, 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.

Paolo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Paolo. Linked forms have their own page here.

PauPaulPoulPabloPauliPauloPavelPavlePavloPawelPaulosPavlosPaulinoPálPålPaolPállPaavoPaulíPavolPawełPovilas

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Paolo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,003
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 530
Best rank ever
#1,216
1983
Peak year
2007
119 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,739
Count in 2025
76

Names similar to Paolo

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

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Names with a curve like Paolo

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

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Sibling names for Paolo

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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