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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Paul

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#262

held its rank from 2024

2025 births

1,316

down −14 births

All-time births

1,398,293

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1957
27,012 births
Best rank
#12
in 1916
First recorded
1880
#60 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1955
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 195727,012#18Peak
  2. 195626,897#17
  3. 196426,874#16
  4. 195526,701#16
  5. 196326,672#17

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #12 in 1916 · peak births 27,012 in 1957

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

1,398,293 boys · 5,842 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Paul has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.