Paulino
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of Paulus. See PABLO
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/paulino/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paulino is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 26th most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.1K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.2K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pet form of Paulus. See PABLO. Feminine form: Paulina.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paulino 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Paulino | 59 |
| MZ Mozambique | #26 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Paulino | 35 |
| PE Peru | #373 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Paulino | 51 |
| BR Brazil | #397 | 12,876 | 1 in 16K | 17K | Paulino | 178 |
| AO Angola | #61 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 2 | Paulino | 42 |
| BO Bolivia | #799 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Paulino | 23 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #127 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Paulino | 83 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Paulino is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, de Paulo com sufixo singular -ino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Spanish and Portuguese: from the Late Latin name Paul nus , a derivative of Paulus (see PAUL ). St Paulinus of Nola (Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus) was a 5th-century bishop and early Christian poet.
as a word
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)
- Paulino Soares de Sousab. 1807BRBrazilian diplomat and politician (1807–1866)
- Paulino Santosb. 1890PHFilipino general (1890–1945)
- Francisco Francob. 1892ESnot in their usual nameSpanish general and dictator (1892-1975)
- Paulino Alcántarab. 1896PHSpanish footballer (1896-1964)
- Paulino Bernabe Seniorb. 1932ESSpanish luthier (1932-2007)
- Paulino Riverob. 1952ESSpanish politician and teacher
- Paulino Monsalveb. 1958ESSpanish field hockey player (1958–2024)
- Paulino Bernabe IIb. 1960ESSpanish luthier
- Paulino Martínez Soriab. 1973ESSpanish footballer
- Jesús Sánchezb. 1974DOnot in their usual namebaseball player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 17K | #1,564 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 13K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 13K | #1,428 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #1,428 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 24 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Where does the name Paulino come from?
- Pet form of Paulus. See PABLO. Feminine form: Paulina. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Paulino?
- A machine transcription gives /paulino/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Paulino mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pet form of Paulus. See PABLO.
- Is Paulino a male or female name?
- Paulino is a male 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 Paulino?
- In the etymology graph, Paulinus is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Paulino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Paulino in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paulino.
- How common is the name Paulino?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,876 people named Paulino in 2022, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Paulino compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Paulino is the 26th most common given name of 1,034 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paulino?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paulinoThe 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, “Paulino” — the 26th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.