Paullette
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Paullette has been given to 182 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1949, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Paullette, 1991
1 in 779,000
Paullette 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Paullette?
Paullette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 779,000
- 5 of 3,892,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 375,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 539,676 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Paullette sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paullette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Paullettes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Paullette was born before 1954 — so the typical Paullette is around 71 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 46.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 9.3%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 126
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (84).
Is Paullette 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 1949 (15)
- Years since peak
- 76
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.7% average annual change
Spellings of Paullette
Paullette is not the most common spelling — Paulette is, with 94.6% against Paullette's 0.37%.
Paullette around the world
Where Paullette 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 Australia1952–1952#460in 1952
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Paullette by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Paullette
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Paullette
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.