Paola

girls:

24.1k births since 1950

#916 (84th percentile)

boys:

148 births since 1984

#4438 (3rd percentile)

overall:

24.2k births since 1950

#1631 (79th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Paola".

1950 2023 19502023

Key Statistics

Total Births
24,083
Peak Births
1,089
Peak Year
2006
First Recorded
1950
Peak Percentile
69.7%
Current Percentile
23.8%
Peak Rank
#286
Current Rank
#722
Female statistics
Total Births
148
Peak Births
13
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1984
Peak Percentile
1.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#687
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Paola

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Paola. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 35.0% confident that Paola is pronounced as POW-luh. The next most likely pronunciation is pah-OH-luh, at 30.0% confidence.

POW-luh (2 syllables)
35.0% confidence
P AW1 L AH0
pah-OH-luh (3 syllables)
30.0% confidence
P AA0 OW1 L AH0
PAH-oh-luh (3 syllables)
10.0% confidence
P AA1 OW0 L AH0
puh-WUH-luh (3 syllables)
7.5% confidence
P AH0 W AH1 L AH0
PAW-luh (2 syllables)
7.5% confidence
P AO1 L AH0
pow-LUH (2 syllables)
5.0% confidence
P AW0 L AH1
pow-OH-luh (3 syllables)
5.0% confidence
P AW0 OW1 L AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Paola. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Paola, please vote using the thumbs up button.

POW-loh (2 syllables)
2 names 8.4k births
P AW1 L OW0

Names with this pronunciation:

PAW-loh (2 syllables)
1 name 4.8k births
P AO1 L OW0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like P AW1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.