Meaning not yet researched.
Paulette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 138 in 2025. Its best rank was #117 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #117 in 1946; #1,536 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Paulette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,536 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #117.
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Paulette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 138 girls in 2025. Peak: #117 in 1946 · most girls in one year: 2,579 (1948).
In 2025, 138 US girls were named Paulette, making it the 1,536th most common girls’ name of the year, down 124 places from #1,412 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 159 girls named Paulette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #117, reached in 1946. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,579, in 1948. For comparison, it was #2,054 in 2015 and #151 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paulette in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 5 babies. In all, 47,152 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 15,942 babies named Paulette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,194 US girls were named Paulette; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 159. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,647 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Paulette ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #443 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Paola (24,644 babies since 1880) and Pauletta (2,522 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Paulett, Paullette and Pauleth are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Paulett (443), Paullette (182), Pauleth (85), Paulet (47).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Paulette in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 16 | #443 | #639 |
| Texas | 33 | #897 | #1,306 |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,018 | — |
| California | 23 | #1,141 | #1,286 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,828 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,339 | #2,461 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 138 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 2024 | 159 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 2023 | 135 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 2022 | 131 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 2021 | 127 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 2015 | 96 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 2014 | 84 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 2010 | 140 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,572 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,439 | — | — |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,582 | — | — |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,086 | — | — |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,775 | — | — |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 1997 | 66 | #2,128 | — | — |
| 1996 | 80 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1990 | 112 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1989 | 153 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1988 | 144 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1985 | 109 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1984 | 120 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1983 | 99 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1982 | 126 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1981 | 142 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1980 | 156 | #953 | — | — |
| 1979 | 158 | #937 | — | — |
| 1978 | 210 | #742 | — | — |
| 1977 | 190 | #790 | — | — |
| 1976 | 182 | #786 | — | — |
| 1975 | 252 | #627 | — | — |
| 1974 | 312 | #541 | — | — |
| 1973 | 385 | #473 | — | — |
| 1972 | 466 | #417 | — | — |
| 1971 | 680 | #357 | — | — |
| 1970 | 805 | #328 | — | — |
| 1969 | 638 | #366 | — | — |
| 1968 | 629 | #355 | — | — |
| 1967 | 701 | #331 | — | — |
| 1966 | 690 | #338 | — | — |
| 1965 | 707 | #343 | — | — |
| 1964 | 838 | #326 | 5 | #4,468 |
| 1963 | 858 | #321 | — | — |
| 1962 | 741 | #348 | — | — |
| 1961 | 774 | #338 | — | — |
| 1960 | 854 | #322 | — | — |
| 1959 | 956 | #294 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,068 | #268 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,092 | #263 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,234 | #234 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,298 | #225 | 6 | #3,784 |
| 1954 | 1,485 | #208 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,763 | #178 | 7 | #3,350 |
| 1952 | 1,886 | #163 | — | — |
| 1951 | 2,148 | #148 | 7 | #3,285 |
| 1950 | 1,953 | #151 | — | — |
| 1949 | 2,553 | #125 | — | — |
| 1948 | 2,579 | #123 | 7 | #3,243 |
| 1947 | 2,334 | #134 | 7 | #3,289 |
| 1946 | 2,520 | #117 | 9 | #2,652 |
| 1945 | 1,575 | #148 | — | — |
| 1944 | 1,438 | #164 | 5 | #3,791 |
| 1943 | 1,440 | #166 | 7 | #3,163 |
| 1942 | 963 | #211 | — | — |
| 1941 | 277 | #413 | 5 | #3,880 |
| 1940 | 223 | #452 | — | — |
| 1939 | 100 | #679 | — | — |
| 1938 | 81 | #782 | — | — |
| 1937 | 68 | #840 | — | — |
| 1936 | 82 | #737 | — | — |
| 1935 | 55 | #944 | — | — |
| 1934 | 46 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1933 | 54 | #931 | — | — |
| 1932 | 48 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,204 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,712 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,312 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).