Paulanne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Paulanne has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1952, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Paulanne, 1965
1 in 725,000
Paulanne over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Paulanne?
Paulanne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1965
- 1 in 725,000
- 5 of 3,625,243 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 353,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1965
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 502,567 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Paulanne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 502,567 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paulanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Paulannes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Paulanne was born before 1953 — so the typical Paulanne is around 72 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 77.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 22
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 77.3% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Paulanne 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1952 (6)
- Years since peak
- 73
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 8.3% average annual change
Spellings of Paulanne
Paulanne is not the most common spelling — Pauline is, with 99.4% against Paulanne's <0.01%.
Paulanne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Paulanne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Paulanne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.