Paulette
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Paulette is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Paule/Paul; 'small'.
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 5K
- CACanada≈1 in 5.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
39,212 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Diminutive of Paule/Paul; 'small'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Paulette is read(measured from records)
Paulette is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English66%
French; small feminine form of Paul.
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- French19%
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paulette 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 39,212 | 1 in 8.5K | 39K | Paulette | 290 |
| FR France | #339 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 213K | Paulette | 267 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | listed | Paulette | 59 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Paulette | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 5 | Paulette | 107 |
| CM Cameroon | #469 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Paulette | 19 |
| EC Ecuador | #708 | 3,352 | 1 in 5K | 3.4K | Paulette | 28 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Paulette | 5 |
| PA Panama | #319 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Paulette | 24 |
| GY Guyana | — | 371 | 1 in 2K | 371 | — | — |
39,212 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; the ca-statcan-baby-names register; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Paulette is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Feminine pet form of PauL.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
French: diminutive feminine form of PAUL . It is widely used in the English-speaking world, where, however, it is a more recent importation than PAULINE .
as a word
In Latvian, Francijas 1604. gada likums, kas legalizēja tiesu un finanšu pārvaldes amatu pirkšanas kārtību, iesaukts pēc valsts amatu nomnieka Šarla Polē ("Paulet") vārda, bija spēkā līdz 1789. g.
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Paulette Goddardb. 1910USAmerican actress (1910–1990)
- Paulette Dubostb. 1910FRFrench actress
- Paulette Brisepierreb. 1917FRFrench politician (1917–2012)
- Emmanuelle Rivab. 1927FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1927-2017)
- Etchika Choureaub. 1929FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Françoise Dorléacb. 1942FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1942–1967)
- Ntozake Shangeb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAfrican American writer and performance artist (1948-2018)
- Paulette Bourgeoisb. 1951CACanadian writer
- Alexandra Lamyb. 1971FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Paulette Gebara Farahb. 2005MXfour-year-old disabled Mexican girl who died under suspicious circumstances
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2020 | 213K | #3,325 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 39K | #1,062 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 3.4K | #450 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 371 | #265 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 138 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 114 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 37 | #1,062 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2018 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2008 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paulette mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutive of Paule/Paul; 'small'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Paulette a male or female name?
- Paulette is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Paulette?
- In the etymology graph, Paula, Paola and Pauletta are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Paule.
- In which country does Paulette have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 39 thousand people named Paulette, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paulette.
- Where is Paulette most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paulette is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paulette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 39,212 people named Paulette in 2020, about 1 in 8.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Paulette compared with other names?
- In Panama, Paulette is the 319th most common given name of 24,657 given names recorded there.
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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, “Paulette” — the 319th most common given name in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.