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Paulin

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Paulin has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 1994, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Paulin, 1994

1 in 372,000

Paulin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paulin: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Paulin means

Paulin is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From a Middle English form of the Latin saint's name Paulīnus.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Paulin (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Paulin is used in English, Albanian and French.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Paulin is pronounced /po.lɛ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Paulin between 1993 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1994; its best national rank was #5,766 in 1994.

How common is Paulin?

Paulin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994
1 in 372,000
10 of 3,715,972 births
Among boys only
1 in 193,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1994
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,573 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Paulin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 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 257,573 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paulin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paulins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Paulin was born before 1994 — so the typical Paulin is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Paulin 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (10)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,766
1994

Spellings of Paulin

Paulin is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 95.2% against Paulin's <0.01%.

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.

Paulin around the world

Where Paulin 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
    1900–2025
    #332
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Paulin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,766
1994
Peak year
1994
10 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Paulin

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

PaulusPaulosXaylinHollinBaelinWeslinVaelinZaelinPaullZolinPaulyXylinKerlinRuilinYorlinMyrlinNewlinNorlinWylinDrelinAdolinCorlinPaulieHerlin

Sibling names for Paulin

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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