Given name & surname
Pala
“woman of the water”
Pala is used as a given name and a surname. One Native American interpretation is “woman of the water.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Native American interpretation is “woman of the water.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Native American.
How it developed
From Italian Pala, from Catalan Palà, from Polish Pala, from Czech Pála, from Turkish Pala, from Hindi पाला.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pala through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 0 boys · 18 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1963. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 133 as a first name in 2020; 721 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pala’s family of names
In Italian usage, Pala as a surname has a diminutive in PALETTA. Pala has a related form in Palah. In Czech usage, Pala as a surname has a related form in Pála.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Around the world
Pala has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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