Paulyne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Paulyne has been given to 332 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1920, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Paulyne, 1947
1 in 450,000
Paulyne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Paulyne?
Paulyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1947, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1947
- 1 in 450,000
- 8 of 3,602,100 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 222,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1947
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 312,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Paulyne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1947 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 312,099 children born in 1947 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paulyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Paulynes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Paulyne was born before 1921 — so the typical Paulyne is around 104 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 47.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 39.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 47.0% of all recorded uses (156).
Is Paulyne 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 1920 (24)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.3% average annual change
Spellings of Paulyne
Paulyne is not the most common spelling — Pauline is, with 89.1% against Paulyne's 0.13%.
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 Paulyne is used
Across 1910–2025, Paulyne was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 435,161 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Oklahoma1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Paulyne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Paulyne around the world
Where Paulyne 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.
- France1994–2023#4,609in 2023
- South Australia1961–1961#665in 1961
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.
Paulyne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Paulyne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Paulyne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.