Paoli is a modern Bengali feminine formation (also coinciding with the Italian Paola feminine and the Italian historical figure Pasquale Paoli's surname). A modern American baby name in the broader Bengali heritage aesthetic. Paoli Dam (born 1980) is a foundational Bengali and Bollywood cinema actress — widely considered one of the leading Bengali actresses of the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s with over 50 films across Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, and Telugu cinema since 2003. Films include the iconic Jiban Sathi (2003) Bengali debut, Kaalbela (2009) — directed by Goutam Ghose — based on Samaresh Majumdar's foundational Bengali novel, the iconic Moner Manush (2010) — earning her National Film Award for Best Feature Film (Bengali, 2010), the foundational Hate Story (2012) Bollywood debut — directed by Vivek Agnihotri, Elaar Char Adhyay (2012), the foundational Yara (2018), and Bulbbul (2020) Netflix India alongside Triptii Dimri — produced by Anushka Sharma's Clean Slate Filmz. Multiple Filmfare Awards East and Anandalok Awards wins. Over 700,000 Instagram followers.
Featured throughout Bengali cinema.
Paoli 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Paoli reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.