Paloma is the Spanish word for "dove" — from the Latin palumbus, meaning "wild dove." The dove is the symbol of peace and the Holy Spirit in Christian tradition.
Paloma is widely used in Spanish-speaking countries. Paloma Picasso (born 1949), daughter of Pablo Picasso, is a famous bearer. In the U.S., Paloma sits in the top 500 and is rising — a Spanish name with a universal meaning.
Paloma does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Paloma reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.