The famed artist Pablo Picasso named his daughter Paloma. She has created several perfumes and thus is known for more than simply being the daughter of a celebrity. She inherited her father's features but is very feminine and pretty.
-- Anonymous User 2/6/2006
Paloma is the name of Sylvania Arias' character on "Passions".
-- Anonymous User 4/6/2006
Paloma is like the name Callum, because they both mean dove.
-- Anonymous User 7/27/2006
I have a good friend with the name Paloma. I really like this name because it's very uncommon (at least where I live). Her friends call her Paloma~loma~llama. She's told me that she was named after Picasso's daughter, but I don't know if that was really his daughter's name.
-- Anonymous User 11/22/2006
Paloma San Basilio is a very famous Spanish singer.
The name is very pretty but I would never name my child this because I live in Croatia and "Paloma" is a corporation which produces toilet paper in Croatia.
-- Anonymous User 4/22/2009
Unfortunately names that end with -oma remind me of cancers. If it wasn't for that I'd think this name sounded beautiful.
Paloma is used as a given name because of the Marian title la Virgen de la Paloma de Madrid. Http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgen_de_la_Paloma_de_Madrid For this reason the name is especially common in Madrid (in the context of Spain).