Paolo

Popularity, 1880–2025

boys named Paolo

By the numbers

Total US births

3,739

Estimated living today

3,600

Median age today

23

Peak year

2007

Best rank

1,380th

Rank in 2025

1,992nd

First recorded

1910

How old the living Paolos are

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,739 babies given the name since 1910, about 3,600 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 19 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

Borrowed from Italian Paolo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Paolos

• Paolo Gentiloni (born 1954)Italian politician
• Paolo Maldini (born 1968)Italian association football player
• Paolo Veronese (1528–1588)Italian painter of the Renaissance
• Paolo Rossi (1956–2020)Italian footballer
• Paolo Uccello (1397–1475)Italian painter
• Paolo Sorrentino (born 1970)Italian film director and screenwriter
• Paolo Guerrero (born 1984)Peruvian association football player
• Paolo Di Canio (born 1968)Italian football player and manager

People named Paolo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Paolo is most common

• CA852
• NY578
• FL243
• TX208
• IL111
• NJ109
• VA21
• MI20
• PA16
• MD12

Relative to how many babies each state records, Paolo is most concentrated in California (3.8×), New York (3.4×), Florida (3.2×), New Jersey (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular boys’ names the year Paolo peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Ethan
• Joshua
• Daniel
• Christopher

All the names of 2007

Paolo elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Paolo: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Paolo is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.12% of children were given it – 73 of them.

Paolo: rank by region

In 2025, Paolo was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Paolo was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Paolo appears in the lists for Province of Liège (106th) and Province of Hainaut (117th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Paolo by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Paolo among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Paolo lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,985 men called Paolo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 34 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 18 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Paola

Paolo against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Paolo vs Paola

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