Given name & surname
Pallas
“to poise, sway, or swing”
Pallas is a feminine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in English, French, and Finnish.
Original GreekΠαλλάς
Meaning & origin
What it means
Pallas goes back to a word meaning “to poise, sway, or swing.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pallas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 98
- 0 boys · 98 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 11 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 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 221 as a first name in 2020; 1,186 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.
Pallas’s family of names
Pallas has a related form in Palla. In Greek usage, Pallas as a surname is a transliteration of Παλλάς.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
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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