Paulen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Paul < lat
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɔɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paulen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 34K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 274K
- NLNetherlands1 in 384K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
160 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Paul < lat. Paulus; 1 Typ, 13 Tokens. Schwacher Genitiv oder Abschwächung aus Paulin.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paulen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 160 | 1 in 34K | 160 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 177 | Paulen | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 45 | 1 in 384K | 45 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 39 | 1 in 274K | 39 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 1 |
160 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Benjamin S. Paulenb. 1869USAmerican politician (1869-1961)
- Moses Paulenb. 1893NONorwegian musician
- Adriaan Paulenb. 1902NLDutch athlete and president of the IAAF (1902-1985)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 177 | #95,567 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 160 | #9,945 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 158 | #116,774 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 143 | #120,901 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 45 | #32,916 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 39 | #34,587 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #142,095 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Paulen?
- A machine transcription gives /pɔɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Paulen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Paul < lat.
- In which country does Paulen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 160 people named Paulen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Paulen most common?
- Paulen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 34 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Paulen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 160 people named Paulen, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paulenThe 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, “Paulen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.