Paulin
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: diminutive of Paul; first attested Paulinus 1066 DB (So)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Paulin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 26K
- FIFinland1 in 11K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of Paul; first attested Paulinus 1066 DB (So)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Paulin is read(measured from records)
Paulin is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English41%
diminutive of Paul; first attested Paulinus 1066 DB (So)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A tarpaulin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
‘little Paul’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Paulin in Spanish.
- French23%
a male given name, rare today
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
voir Poulin
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paulin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 5.6K | Paulin | 261 |
| US United States | 3,689 | 1 in 90K | 3.7K | Paulin | 132 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Paulin | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Paulin | 93 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Paulin | 24 |
| FI Finland | 498 | 1 in 11K | 498 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 62 | 1 in 12K | 62 | — | — |
| MQ Martinique | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 5 | — | 6 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). 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)
Paulin 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, variante dialetal setentrional de Paulino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Johan Lillienstedtb. 1655SEnot in their usual nameSwedish count, statesman and poet
- Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Paulinb. 1793FRFrench journalist (1796-1859)
- Edmond Paulinb. 1848FRFrench architect
- Jean-Paul Paulinb. 1902FRFrench film director (1902–1976)
- Georges Paulinb. 1902FRFrench automobile designer
- Pierre Paulinb. 1927FRFrench designer (1927–2009)
- Tom Paulinb. 1949GBNorthern Irish poet (born 1949)
- Scott Paulinb. 1950USAmerican actor
- Amy Paulinb. 1955USAmerican politician
- Viveca Paulinb. 1969SESwedish actress
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 75 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,875 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,377 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 583 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 498 | #3,469 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 62 | #563 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Paulin mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Paul; first attested Paulinus 1066 DB (So) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Paulin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Paulin in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paulin.
- Where is Paulin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paulin is densest in Finland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paulin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,689 people named Paulin in 2010, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paulinThe 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, “Paulin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.