Paulina
The girl's name Paulina has been in the national records since 1880, with 20,142 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 783rd. About 19,000 Paulinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,142
- Estimated living today
- 19,000
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2002
- Best rank
- 365th
- Rank in 2025
- 783rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 20,137 / 5
How old the living Paulinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,142 babies given the name since 1880, about 19,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 6,400 of them are children and 370 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From Latin Paulīna, feminine form of Paulīnus, derivative of Paulus, from paulus (“small”). Name of a third-century saint.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Paulinas
- Paulina Rubio (born 1971)Mexican singer
- Paulina Chávez (born 2002)American actress
- Paulina Porizkova (born 1965)Czech-American model and actress
- Paulina Vega (born 1993)Colombian beauty pageant titleholder
- Paulina Chiziane (born 1955)Mozambican writer
- Paulína Bátovská Fialková (born 1992)Slovak biathlete
- Paulina Luisi (1875–1950)Uruguayan doctor, teacher, politician, and feminist activist
- Anna Paulina Luna (born 1989)American politician and veteran
People named Paulina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Paulina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Paulina is most concentrated in Arizona (4.3×), California (3.6×), Texas (3.0×), Nevada (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2002
The most popular girls’ names the year Paulina peaked:
Paulina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland girls | Paulina | 54,176 birth registrations | 8th |
| Austria girls | Paulina | 1,745 | 39th |
| Norway girls | Paulina | 846 | 140th |
| England and Wales girls | Paulina | 660 | 601st |
| France girls | Paulina | 630 | 1,682nd |
| Switzerland girls | Paulina | 392 | 248th |
| Ireland girls | Paulina | 171 | 215th |
| Sweden girls | Paulina | 163 | 97th |
| Belgium girls | Paulina | 47 | 1,109th |
| Scotland girls | Paulina | 46 | 392nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Paulina | 31 | 253rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Paulina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Paulina | 369 | 0.030% | 188th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Paulina | 18 | 0.004% | 398th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Paulina | 3 | 0.005% | 181st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Paulina | 2 | 0.054% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Paulina is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.04% of children were given it – 44 of them.
Paulina: rank by region
In 2006, Paulina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Paulina | 257 | 5 |
In 2025, Paulina was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Paulina | 103 | 13 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Paulina | 82 | 10 |
| Lubelskie | Paulina | 78 | 11 |
| Lubuskie | Paulina | 81 | 6 |
| Łódzkie | Paulina | 98 | 10 |
| Małopolskie | Paulina | 88 | 23 |
| Mazowieckie | Paulina | 95 | 32 |
| Opolskie | Paulina | 48 | 13 |
| Podkarpackie | Paulina | 98 | 8 |
| Podlaskie | Paulina | 77 | 8 |
| Pomorskie | Paulina | 86 | 17 |
| Śląskie | Paulina | 54 | 54 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Paulina | 96 | 3 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Paulina | 84 | 6 |
| Wielkopolskie | Paulina | 150 | 6 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Paulina | 148 | 3 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Paulina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 298 | 68th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Paulina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Paulina | 8,572 | 24,278 |
| Finland girls | Paulina | 281 | 1,068 |
| the Netherlands boys | Paulina | — | 472 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Paulina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 6,486 women called Paulina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Paulina | 72 | 0.861 | 200 |
| Badajoz | Paulina | 212 | 0.629 | 238 |
| Ávila | Paulina | 48 | 0.600 | 242 |
| Soria | Paulina | 24 | 0.541 | 239 |
| Burgos | Paulina | 97 | 0.535 | 257 |
| Segovia | Paulina | 42 | 0.533 | 246 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Paulina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.