# Pál (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/pal/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 202 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 187 / 15 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 19, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | 19,783 |
| 2012 | 5 | 18,873 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17,085 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 8 | 3,220 |
| 1965 | 6 | 3,821 |
| 1969 | 6 | 4,286 |
| 1972 | 6 | 4,822 |
| 1976 | 6 | 5,427 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,864 |
| 1980 | 7 | 5,353 |
| 1981 | 12 | 3,555 |
| 1982 | 8 | 4,884 |
| 1983 | 7 | 5,325 |
| 1985 | 8 | 5,031 |
| 1986 | 10 | 4,386 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,732 |
| 2009 | 6 | 12,087 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,520 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3,549 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |

## People named Pál

- Pál Joensen, Faroese swimmer
- Pal Engjëlli, Catholic Albanian cardinal (1416-1470)
- Pál Gábor, Film director, Screenwriter (1932–1987)
- Pál B. Nagy, fencer
- Palkó Dárdai, German-Hungarian footballer
- Pál Lázár, association football player
- Pál Fried, American artist (1893-1976)
- Pál Pusztai, Argentina caricaturtist, comic artist
- Pál Dunay, fencer (1909-1993)
- Pål Sletaune, film director
- Paul Halmos, American mathematician (1916–2006)
- Paul Czinner, American film director (1890–1972)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.