Paule
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Paul
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pol/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paule is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country, where it is the 90th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 2.1K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 3.6K
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
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, masculine equivalent Paul
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paule 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 | #90 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Paule | 6 |
| FR France | #501 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 46K | Paule | 263 |
| CM Cameroon | #320 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Paule | 26 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Paule | 21 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #288 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Paule | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 974 | 1 in 51K | 974 | Paule | 28 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 7K | 22 | — | 13 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
Paule is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Féminin de Paul, du latin Paulus, « petit, humble ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Féminin de Paul; du latin, « petite ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, French female form of Paul; 'small'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Latin, vocative singular of Paulus
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)
- Paule Carrère-Dencausseb. 1891FRFrench pianist (1891-1969)
- Paulette Nardalb. 1896FRnot in their usual nameFrench journalist (1896-1985)
- Renée Faureb. 1918FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1918–2005)
- Paule Emanueleb. 1927FRFrench actress
- Paule Desjardinsb. 1929FRFrench singer (1929-2007)
- Geneviève Fontanelb. 1936FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Bernadette Lafontb. 1938FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1938-2013)
- Paule Constantb. 1944FRFrench writer and literary critic
- Paule Baillargeonb. 1945CACanadian actor and film director
- Françoise Combesb. 1952FRnot in their usual nameFrench astrophysicist and President of the French Academy of Sciences
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 56 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 335 | #11,035 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 335 | #11,025 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 52 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Paule mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Paul Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paule?
- A machine transcription gives /pol/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Paule a male or female name?
- Paule 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 Paule have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Paule in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paule.
- What are other forms of the name Paule?
- In the etymology graph, Paula, Paola and Pauline are forms of the same name in other languages; Paulette is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Paule?
- In Spain, the national register counted 974 people named Paule, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Paule compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Paule is the 90th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paule?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pauleThe 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, “Paule” — the 90th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.