Pauline

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Feminine form of Paul from the derivative Paulinus

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pauline is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 935(inferred from the name graph)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 1.2K
  • USUnited States1 in 4.7K

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 Pauline 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.

Poland (measured from records)

224,208 named Paulina, 2026

#857 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
499 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 548 (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PaulineLatin(measured from records)
פוליןHebrew(measured from records)
พอลลีนThai(measured from records)

Locally spelled פולין in FR France and Paulina in EC Ecuador.

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)

Feminine form of Paul from the derivative Paulinus.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

How Pauline is read(measured from records)

Pauline 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.

  • English62%

    Feminine form of Paul from the derivative Paulinus.

    as a nameIrish first names

    pert, to St. Paul; pupil of St.

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • French22%

    a female given name derived from Latin Paulina

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Dérivé de Paul, du latin Paulus, « petit, humble ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Forme féminine de Paul; du latin, « faible ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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)

Pauline 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.

Where Pauline is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—224,208as Paulina1 in 171224K—2
FR France—≈120,000 est.≈1 in 548159Kפולין14
US United States#39170,4471 in 4.7K70KPauline499
GB United Kingdom#180≈70,000 est.≈1 in 935946Pauline284
NG Nigeria—≈33,000 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Pauline60
EC Ecuador—15,631as Paulina1 in 1.1K16KPaulina8
IE Ireland#155≈4,300 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Pauline107

224,208 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INEC — civil registry names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pauline is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name72 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Brazil

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pau'Line, Pau-Line, Pàuline, Paul'Ine, Paùline

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Paulīne

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Finland

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Pauliné

  • Greek given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Polin, Πωλιν

74 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pauline is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • French form of the Latin name Paulina (feminine of Paulinus, a derivative of the family name Paulus ‘small’) that has long been common also in the Englishspeaking world, where it is now established as the most common feminine equivalent of jPaul.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

18001850190019502000Berthe Morisot, b. 1841Mary of Teck, b. 1867Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, b. 1883Pauline Kael, b. 1919Pauline Baynes, b. 1922Marie Dubois, b. 1937Pauline Collins, b. 1940Pauline Moran, b. 1947Pauline Marois, b. 1949Sasha Cohen, b. 1984

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 110 sources across 59 countries.

Official registers attesting Pauline
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024159K#312
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202070K#725
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—288#845
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026288#845
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020113#725
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202556—

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Pauline mean, and where does it come from?
Feminine form of Paul from the derivative Paulinus. Recorded by Irish first names.
In which country does Pauline have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 224 thousand people named Paulina, more than in any other country we hold.
Is Pauline a male or female name?
Pauline 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 Pauline?
In the etymology graph, Paul, Paula and Paulina are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Pauline?
In the United States, the national register counted 70,447 people named Pauline in 2020, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
How common is Pauline compared with other names?
In Ireland, Pauline is the 155th most common given name of 14,976 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, “Pauline” — the 155th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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