Paûla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Paûla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Angola it is the 26th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Paula. Feminine form of Pablo.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 150(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 279
- CLChile≈1 in 378
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #412 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 466 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 150 (inferred from the name graph)
256,421 people, 2020
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Paula in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, US United States and 7 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin Paula. Feminine form of Pablo.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paûla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #906 | 256,421 | 1 in 1.3K | 256K | Paula | 466 |
| BR Brazil | #31 | 212,186 | 1 in 998 | 223K | Paula | 250 |
| ES Spain | #74 | 179,475 | 1 in 279 | 179K | Paula | 241 |
| CO Colombia | #48 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 410 | — | Paula | 211 |
| AR Argentina | #143 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 481 | 562 | Paula | 195 |
| PT Portugal | #27 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 150 | listed | Paula | 187 |
| CL Chile | #129 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 378 | 1 | Paula | 164 |
| AO Angola | #26 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 706 | — | Paula | 41 |
| FI Finland | #497 | 18,402 | 1 in 303 | 24K | Paula | 46 |
| NI Nicaragua | #32 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 385 | — | Paula | 25 |
256,421 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paûla mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Paula. Feminine form of Pablo. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Irish first names and 5 other sources.
- Is Paûla a male or female name?
- Paûla 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 Paûla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 256 thousand people named Paûla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paula.
- How common is the name Paûla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 256,421 people named Paûla in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Paûla compared with other names?
- In the United States, Paûla is the 906th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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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, “Paûla” — the 906th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.