Paula

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: German

Meaning

Paula is a common female given name. It is used in German, English, Estonian, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Croatian and Greek languages. In Greek it is Polina.

From Wikipedia

Paula first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 63 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1961 with 206 babies (rank #95 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Paula

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Paula yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

6,054
Total babies (all years)
63
Years in the data
206
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1952137#116
1953144#106
1954148#108
1955156#106
1956129#135
1957136#132
1958151#119
1959180#103
1960194#93
1961206#95
1962173#112
1963170#116
1964183#114
1965201#103
1966181#108
1967174#112
1968155#129
1969174#126
1970162#123
1971136#145
1972142#139
1973128#140
1974107#158
1975104#156
1976130#123
1977122#127
1978100#163
197991#177
1980128#133
1981118#144
1982111#145
1983102#161
198495#170
198572#217
198696#185
198772#222
198886#187
198989#188
199066#247
199162#256
199285#204
199377#216
199451#302
199567#224
199644#319
199759#261
199860#256
199950#288
200041#345
200132#408
200235#378
200327#451
200418#564
200523#462
200614#605
200715#583
20084#1,146
20099#759
20109#733
20117#797
20124#1,028
20137#767
20145#864