Paolina

#11,673 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Paulinus

Paolina has been given to 183 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #11,673 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Paolina, 2025

1 in 414,000

Paolina over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paolina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Paulinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Paolina means

Paolina is a feminine form of Paulinus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Paolina is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /pa.o.ˈliː.na/ for Paolina.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Paulinus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 183 girls were recorded with the name Paolina between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2004; its best national rank was #5,593 in 1920.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,681 in 2020 to #11,673 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Paolina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,673; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Paolina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paolina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paolinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Paolina was born before 2004 — so the typical Paolina is around 21 today.

Median birth year: 2004; About 21 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 67.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 178; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Paolina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −777; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +3,008; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 53.3%; Peak was 2004 (15)
Years since peak: 21; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,593; 1920

Spellings of Paolina

Paolina is not the most common spelling — Pauline is, with 57.1% against Paolina's 0.05%.

Pauline57.1%226,404
Carolina12.1%47,971
Alina11.5%45,387
Paola6.2%24,496
Paulina5.1%20,137
Salina1.8%7,239
Karolina1.2%4,676
Malina1.1%4,452

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Paolina is used

Across 1910–2025, Paolina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,455,707 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Paolina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Paolina around the world

Where Paolina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1925–2025
#897
in 2025
South Australia
1950–1979
#627
in 1979

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Paolina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,673
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 3,008
Best rank ever: #5,593; 1920
Peak year: 2004; 15 that year
First recorded: 1920
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 183
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Paolina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Paolina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Sydni Sydnie Shyann Alysa Jacquelin Halie Gabriel Shakira

For a brother

Aaden Kale Jarod Keven Zakary Garret Samual Donavon

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