Girl
Paula
Paula means "Small" and comes from Latin, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It belongs mostly to the 1950s at this point. These days, it is familiar to most people. Its single strongest year on record was 1963.
LatinSmall
LatinHumble, feminine of Paul
Births by decade
1900s
666
1910s
2,027
1920s
4,564
1930s
8,909
1940s
39,148
1950s
85,023
1960s
80,695
1970s
32,872
1980s
11,190
1990s
6,384
2000s
4,216
2010s
2,605
Peaked in the 1950s · 278,299 total U.S. births since 1900