This page shows the Paul (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Paul was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Paul's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Paul for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Paul appears in 52 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 21,108 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1974, when the table records 1,260 babies given the name, at rank 3 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Paul for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
202511316
202413290
202313278
202220209
202119233
202020213
201922216
201826187
201729186
201637158
201528194
201446133
201334162
201238154
201150125
201047129
20096698
20087297
20077195
20066298
20059467
200410868
200310666
200212857
200116546
200016645
199917644
199823835
199726633
199625233
199528034
199431631
199339620
199248319
199156716
199064014
198968012
198876011
198778111
198681611
19859328
19848988
19839018
19821,0126
19811,0396
19801,0456
19791,1494
19781,1474
19771,2303
19761,1463
19751,2073
19741,2603

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