Paulien
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Paulien is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands. Recorded meaning: Dans le droit ancien, un débiteur pouvait intenter une action contre un créancier qui avait passé un acte en fraude.
- NLNetherlands
- BEBelgium
- FRFrance
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Dans le droit ancien, un débiteur pouvait intenter une action contre un créancier qui avait passé un acte en fraude. Le mot dérive du nom d’un préteur appelé Paulus.
Sources 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Paulien 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 French, taken against a fraudulent debtor
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)
- Paulien van Schaikb. 1967NLDutch singer
- Paulien Dresscherb. 1967NLDutch curator and researcher (born 1967)
- Paulien Cornelisseb. 1976NLDutch writer, columnist and cabaret artist (born 1976)
- Paulien van Deutekomb. 1981NLDutch speed skater (1981–2019)
- Paulien Olthetenb. 1982NLDutch photographer (born 1982)
- Paulien van Dooremalenb. 1985NLbadminton player
- Paulien Couckuytb. 1997BEBelgian athlete
- Paulien Kosterb. 1997NLDutch cyclist
- Paulien Smitsresearcher
- Paulien van der HoevenNLDutch politician
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Paulien mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dans le droit ancien, un débiteur pouvait intenter une action contre un créancier qui avait passé un acte en fraude.
- Is Paulien a male or female name?
- Paulien 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 Paulien?
- In the etymology graph, Pauline, Paulina and Polina are forms of the same name in other languages; Lien is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Paulien have the most bearers?
- Paulien is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paulienThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Paulien”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.