Paoline
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Paoline is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 67K(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 215K
- FRFrance≈1 in 359K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paoline 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 215K | 1 | Paoline | 2 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Paoline | 2 |
| FR France | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 359K | — | Paoline | 96 |
| PH Philippines | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Paoline | 4 |
| BR Brazil | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 5.6M | 59 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 829K | 2 | Paoline | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | 1 |
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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Paoline 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.
In Italian, feminine plural of paolino
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Paoline Nkunku Bakulub. 1969CDCongolese senator
- Paoline Salagnacb. 1984FRFrench basketball player (born 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 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 20 | #59,741 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 7 | #27,806 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #840 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Paoline a male or female name?
- Paoline 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.
- In which country does Paoline have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 473 people named Paoline in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paoline.
- How common is the name Paoline?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 7 people named Paoline, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Paoline?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paolineThe 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, “Paoline”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.