Annual registration volume (number of births) for Paul across 146 years of SSA data.
Historical Timeline (1880 - 2025)
18801920196020002025
Recent Decade (2015 - 2025)
5-Year Trend (2020β2025)
-6.1%
10-Year Trend (2015β2025)
-35.2%
201520202025
π Popularity Milestones
Busiest Year on Record27,012births in 1957
Years in Top 100121 yrs
Years in Top 500146 yrs
Longest Streak146 yrs
Decade-by-Decade Registration Volumes
1880s: 4,196
1890s: 8,181
1900s: 12,636
1910s: 78,216
1920s: 132,384
1930s: 125,774
1940s: 183,364
1950s: 253,202
1960s: 242,503
1970s: 136,390
1980s: 104,397
1990s: 58,931
2000s: 30,964
2010s: 19,030
2020s: 8,125
π Sound & Spelling Structure
Phonetic SyllablesPaul
Letter Count4 letters
Spelling ComplexityEasy
Length Percentile
Longer than 1.4% of names
Linguistic Profile: It is an isogram, meaning no two letters are repeated. Longer than 1.4% of SSA names. Starts with P, a letter used by only 1.6% of SSA names.
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