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Pauletta

Girls' name

Diminutive of Paul

Pauletta has been given to 2,522 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1948, with 107 recorded.

Babies named Pauletta, 1997

1 in 453,000

Pauletta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pauletta: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Paul

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pauletta means

Pauletta is a diminutive of Paul.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pauletta is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /pɔ.ˈlɛt.ə/ for Pauletta.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pauletta → Paul. The family’s meaning is “small”, recorded in English with the source elements paulus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Paul.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,522 girls were recorded with the name Pauletta between 1917 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 107 in 1948; its best national rank was #847 in 1948.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pauletta?

Pauletta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 453,000
8 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only
1 in 218,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
314,055 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pauletta 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 1997 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 314,055 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pauletta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paulettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pauletta was born before 1953 — so the typical Pauletta is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,565
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (757).

Is Pauletta 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 1948 (107)
Years since peak
77
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#847
1948

Spellings of Pauletta

Pauletta is not the most common spelling — Paulette is, with 69.8% against Pauletta's 3.7%.

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 Pauletta is used

Across 1910–2025, Pauletta was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 97,513 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 12,500
  2. 2Indiana1 in 33,333
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 33,333
  5. 5Missouri1 in 50,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 50,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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. Pauletta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Pauletta

People whose public names include Pauletta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Pauletta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Pauletta. Linked forms have their own page here.

PaulettePaoletta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Pauletta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#847
1948
Peak year
1948
107 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
2,522
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pauletta

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

JuliettaViolettaMaryettaArlettaColettaCarlottaNicolettaGeorgettaLouettaPaulettLorrettaPauleneKenyettaLaurettaBernettaVernettaCarlettaFlorettaJohnettaBrigittaWillettaPaulinaLovettaPaulette

Names with a curve like Pauletta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pauletta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SusannKarylGeorgeannRosannSheronGlyndaKarrenCorlissGlindaSuellenDremaDayle

Sibling names for Pauletta

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

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