Paull

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Paull has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 1933, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Paull, 1960

1 in 831,000

Paull over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paull: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Paull means

Paull is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Paull is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Paull between 1933 and 1960. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1933; its best national rank was #3,234 in 1945.

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 Paull?

Paull had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1960, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1960: 1 in 831,000; 5 of 4,153,934 births
Among boys only: 1 in 426,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1960: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 575,859 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Paull 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 1960 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 575,859 children born in 1960 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paull. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paulls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Paull was born before 1945 — so the typical Paull is around 80 today.

Median birth year: 1945; About 80 years old
Biggest decade: 1930s; 35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 64.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1930s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Paull 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: —; 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 1933 (6)
Years since peak: 92; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #3,234; 1945

Spellings of Paull

Paull is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 87.8% against Paull's <0.01%.

Paul87.8%1,398,293
Raul5.5%88,040
Pablo3.2%50,370
Saul2.7%43,288
Paulo0.32%5,031
Paolo0.23%3,739
Pavel0.10%1,544
Paula0.06%913

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.

Paull around the world

Where Paull 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.

South Australia
1944–2006
#657
in 2006

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Paull 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: #3,234; 1945
Peak year: 1933; 6 that year
First recorded: 1933
Last recorded: 1960
All-time count: 17
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Paull

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

Pauly Paulin Paulus Paulos Paulie Paublo Paulson Pauljohn Paulina Abdull Pau Paulette Paula Paulo Pauljoseph Paulino Pauline Paulanthony Paulmichael Paul

Sibling names for Paull

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

Shirlee Joe Bettye Louella Billy Donald Ardith Marlyn

For a brother

Delano Talmadge Franklyn Boyce Arlen Gaylord Huey Shirley

Explore around Paull

Top names of 1933, Paull's peak year The 1930s in full Other names that peaked in 1945 Boys' names starting with P