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Paulino

#7,085 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Paulo

Paulino has been given to 1,788 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #7,085 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Paulino, 2025

1 in 276,000

Paulino over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paulino: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Paulo

Spanish

What Paulino means

Paulino is a diminutive of Paulo.

Origin, language, and formation

Paulino is used in Cebuano, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Paulino comes through Spanish Paulino.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Paulo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Paulino is pronounced /pawˈlĩ.nu/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,788 boys were recorded with the name Paulino between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1995; its best national rank was #1,553 in 1928.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,175 in 2020 to #7,085 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,917 in 2015 to #7,085 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Paulino?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,085
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Paulino 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 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paulino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paulinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Paulino was born before 1986 — so the typical Paulino is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
14.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,442
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1990s — 14.6% of all recorded uses (261).

Is Paulino 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
−1,254
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,910
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,168
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.4%
Peak was 1995 (37)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,553
1928

Spellings of Paulino

Paulino is not the most common spelling — Paulo is, with 66.2% against Paulino's 23.5%.

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 Paulino is used

Across 1910–2025, Paulino was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 55,663 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Paulino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Paulino around the world

Where Paulino 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
    1926–1975
    #1,848
    in 1975

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

Paulino by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,085
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,910
Best rank ever
#1,553
1928
Peak year
1995
37 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,788
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Paulino

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

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Sibling names for Paulino

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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