girls:
18 births since 2017
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
394 births since 1989
#4192 (9th percentile)
overall:
412 births since 1989
#7327 (5th percentile)
The name Pau is the #7,327 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 412 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 5.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,192 (8.5% percentile) for all time with 394 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 2017.
Pau first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 2017 for girls). Birth data for Pau is available in 19 out of the 35 years between 1989 and 2023 (19 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Pau has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Pau reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #877) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Pau ranks #897 for boys (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 49.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Pau reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #947) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pau".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Pau. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.6% confident that Pau is pronounced as pow, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is paw, at 29.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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