Paloma
2025 SSA
About Paloma
Paloma is vibrant and ruby-lipped a la jewelry designer Paloma Picasso, but it also suggests peace, as symbolized by the dove. Paloma is a highly recommended striking but soft name, one of the best of the names that mean peace and girls' names starting with P.
Salma Hayak used Paloma as the middle name of her daughter Valentina, and it was the first name pick of David Caruso and Ugly Betty's Ana Ortiz.
Pronounced puh-LO-muh.
As of October 2026, Paloma ranked #793 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #703 in 2010, Nameberry popularity #540.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #871 | 314 | 175.8 |
| 2015 | #903 | 306 | 171.4 |
| 2016 | #946 | 290 | 163.7 |
| 2017 | #891 | 303 | 175.5 |
| 2018 | #904 | 298 | 175.2 |
| 2019 | #915 | 290 | 172.8 |
| 2020 | #940 | 273 | 168.9 |
| 2021 | #883 | 309 | 188.3 |
| 2022 | #959 | 280 | 170.7 |
| 2023 | #974 | 265 | 165.2 |
| 2024 | #971 | 267 | 164.8 |
| 2025 | #793 | 343 | 213.4 |
World rankings
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Paloma on lists
Famous Palomas
- Paloma Herrera
Argentine ballerina
- Paloma Bloyd
American actress
- Paloma Faith (Blomfield)
English singer/actress
- Paloma Baeza
Mexican,English actress and director
- (Anne) Paloma Ruiz
Picasso (y Gilot), French jewelry designer; daughter of Pablo Picasso and Francoise Gilot
- Paloma Duarte
Brazilian actress
- Paloma Ayana Stoecker aka Delilah
British singer,songwriter
- Paloma Rae Estevez (b. 1986)
daughter of actor Emilio Estevez
- Paloma Aristizábal Martínez (b. 2005)
daughter of singer Juanes and actress Karen Martinez
- Paloma Todeschini (b. 2006)
daughter of actors Bruno Todeschini and Sophie Broustal
- Paloma Raquel Caruso (b. 2007)
daughter of actor David Caruso
- Paloma Pilar Duffy (b. 2008)
daughter of TV personalities Sean Duffy and Rachel Campos,Duffy
- Paloma Louise Lebenzon (b. 2009)
Daughter of actress Ana Ortiz
- Paloma Greco (b. 2009)
daughter of actress Natasha Klauss and Marcelo Greco
- Paloma Michaela Giles (b. 2016)
daughter of actress Caterina Scorsone and singer Rob Giles
- Valentina Paloma Pinault (b. 2007)
Daughter of actress Salma Hayek Pinault and François,Henri Pinault
- Paloma Idalia Sandoval
Mexican-American stylist, best friend of Sabrina Carpenter
- Paloma Lanna
fashion designer and creator of Paloma Wool
Paloma in pop culture
- Paloma
character in Junot Diaz's "Miss Lora"
- Paloma Josse
character in "The Elegance of the Hedgehog"
- Daphne Paloma Vasquez
character on TV's 'Switched At Birth'
- Paloma
name used by Elaine in an episode of "Seinfeld"
- "Paloma Negra
" song by Chavela Vargas
- Cucurrucucu Paloma
Mexican folk song
- Paloma
a tequila grapefruit cocktail