Pauliņa
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pauliņa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Paulīna, feminine form of Paulīnus, derivative of Paulus, from paulus (“small”). Name of a third-century saint.
- PLPoland1 in 171(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 149as Pavlína
- RURussia≈1 in 292as Полина
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pauliņa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #362 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171 (inferred from the name graph)
≈480,000 named Полина, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
8 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Полина in RU Russia, BY Belarus, Paulina in PL Poland, US United States, Поліна in UA Ukraine and Pavlína in CZ Czechia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- LatinPaulīna(measured from records)
- Latin rootpaulus“small”(measured from records)
From Latin Paulīna, feminine form of Paulīnus, derivative of Paulus, from paulus (“small”). Name of a third-century saint.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pauliņa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #71 | ≈480,000 est. | ≈1 in 292 | #35 | Полина | 215 |
| PL Poland | #67 | 224,208 | 1 in 171 | 224K | Paulina | 226 |
| CZ Czechia | #73 | 71,726as Pavlína | 1 in 149 | 72K | Pavlína | 102 |
| US United States | — | 70,447as Pauline | 1 in 4.7K | 70K | Paulina | 265 |
| UA Ukraine | #93 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Поліна | 78 |
| BY Belarus | #57 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 399 | 6 | Полина | 47 |
| MD Moldova | #166 | 5,107as Poļina | 1 in 659 | 5.1K | פולינה | 19 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pauliņa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Paulīna, feminine form of Paulīnus, derivative of Paulus, from paulus (“small”). Name of a third-century saint. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- In which country does Pauliņa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 485 thousand people named Полина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pauliņa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pauliņa is densest in Poland — about 1 in 171 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pauliņa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 224,208 people named Pauliņa in 2026, about 1 in 171 residents.
- How common is Pauliņa compared with other names?
- In Russia, Pauliņa is the 71st most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pauli%C5%86aThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pauliņa” — the 71st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.