Paloma
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A cocktail made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/paloma/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paloma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 2.4K
- BRBrazil1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
82,762 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A cocktail made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paloma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #377 | 82,762 | 1 in 2.6K | 83K | Paloma | 153 |
| ES Spain | #181 | 30,944 | 1 in 1.6K | 31K | Paloma | 209 |
| US United States | — | 10,303 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Paloma | 296 |
| CL Chile | #408 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 28 | Paloma | 93 |
| AR Argentina | #721 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 436 | Paloma | 79 |
| PY Paraguay | #494 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Paloma | 23 |
82,762 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Paloma is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, dove, pigeon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Del latín palumbes/palumba, 'paloma salvaje'; por el símbolo de paz.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In French, Origine latine, signifie « colombe ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, De l’espagnol paloma, « colombe ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Dove.
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Paloma Picassob. 1949FRFrench/Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman
- Paloma San Basiliob. 1950ESSpanish singer
- Paloma Baezab. 1975GBBritish actress, director
- Paloma Faithb. 1981GBBritish singer
- Paloma Bernardib. 1985BRBrazilian actress
- Paloma Bloydb. 1988USAmerican-Spanish actress
- Blanca Palomab. 1989ESSpanish singer (1989–)
- Paloma Elsesserb. 1992USAmerican plus size fashion model
- Paloma Kwiatkowskib. 1994CACanadian actress
- Paloma Mamib. 1999USAmerican singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 89 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 83K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 82K | #372 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 79K | #553 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 31K | #139 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 31K | #245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10K | #2,414 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2K | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 436 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 436 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 379 | #372 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 343 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 273 | #431 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Paloma a male or female name?
- Paloma is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Paloma mean, and where does it come from?
- A cocktail made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paloma?
- A machine transcription gives /paloma/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Paloma have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 83 thousand people named Paloma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paloma.
- Where is Paloma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paloma is densest in Spain — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paloma?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 82,762 people named Paloma in 2022, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Paloma compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Paloma is the 377th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palomaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Paloma” — the 377th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.