The Spanish name Paloma stands for ‘dove’ or ‘pigeon’. It originated from the Latin word ‘palumbus’. In Spain and Italy, Paloma is a common name.
Paloma is a female first name.
The name Paloma isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Paloma ranks 824. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Paloma. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Paloma.
The Spanish name Paloma stands for ‘dove’ or ‘pigeon’. It originated from the Latin word ‘palumbus’. In Spain and Italy, Paloma is a common name.
Paloma is a popular name because... the dove is the symbol of the Holy Spirit and of peace. Therefore, this name is also associated with the meaning 'peaceful'.
Paloma is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Paloma cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #656 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2010. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Paloma, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Paloma seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Paloma was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
279 babies were named Paloma in 2022 - that's 1 in 531,297 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Paloma ranked 861 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, P is by no means the rarest initial. While A, S and M are the most common first letters of girls' names, Q, X and U are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With six letters, the name Paloma is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.6% of all girls’ names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a P, Patricia is currently the most common.
If your name is Paloma and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Paloma, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Lion
Orange
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Paloma
Paloma
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
L
O
M
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
A
L
O
M
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Paloma sounds like this:
