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Paulus

Boys' name

Variant of Paul

Paulus has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1929. 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 1965, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Paulus, 1987

1 in 721,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paulus: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Paul

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Paulus means

Paulus is a variant of Paul.

Origin, language, and formation

Paulus is used in Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Norwegian and Swedish.

Paulus comes through Latin Paulus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Paul.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Paulus is pronounced /ˈpɑu̯.lʏs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Paulus between 1929 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1965; its best national rank was #3,823 in 1965.

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 Paulus?

Paulus had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 721,000
5 of 3,605,072 births
Among boys only
1 in 373,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,770 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Paulus 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 1987 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 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paulus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pauluss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Paulus was born before 1965 — so the typical Paulus is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
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1960s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Paulus 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 1965 (6)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,823
1965

Spellings of Paulus

Paulus is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 99.4% against Paulus'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.

Paulus around the world

Where Paulus 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
    1902–1926
    #964
    in 1926
  • South Australia
    1960–1970
    #540
    in 1970

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Paulus 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
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Best rank ever
#3,823
1965
Peak year
1965
6 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Paulus

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

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Sibling names for Paulus

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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