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Baby name
Paul
Boy
Origin of the name
Paul comes from the Latin Paulus, “small.” This Roman surname spread with the apostle Paul, whose letters fill a large part of the New Testament.
Classic name
1,398,293births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 18rank at its peak, in 1957
Where babies named Paul are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Paul is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Paul is most common in Massachusetts (2.3 times), Rhode Island (2) and Vermont (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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