Meaning not yet researched.
Paulina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 346 in 2025. Its best rank was #366 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #366 in 2002; #784 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Paulina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#784 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #366.
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Paulina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 346 girls in 2025. Peak: #366 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 822 (2002).
In 2025, 346 US girls were named Paulina, making it the 784th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2 places from #782 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 361 girls named Paulina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #366, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 822. For comparison, it was #880 in 2015 and #1,900 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paulina in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 10 babies with the name. In all, 20,142 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,562 babies named Paulina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,410 US girls were named Paulina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 368. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,645 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Paulina ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #384 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Paula (281,769 babies since 1880), Pauline (227,179 babies since 1880), Paola (24,644 babies since 1880) and Polina (1,334 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Paulena, Paullina and Paulyna are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lina and Polly.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Polish and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Paulena (126), Paullina (5), Paulyna (5).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 18 | #384 | #302 |
| Texas | 88 | #385 | #439 |
| Florida | 36 | #514 | #729 |
| California | 62 | #537 | #507 |
| Colorado | 8 | #690 | — |
| Illinois | 12 | #785 | #846 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #816 | #1,542 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #976 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #1,017 | #824 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,095 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,166 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,178 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,203 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,364 | #1,094 |
| New York | 5 | #2,340 | #1,196 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 346 | #784 | — | — |
| 2024 | 361 | #782 | — | — |
| 2023 | 364 | #775 | — | — |
| 2022 | 356 | #795 | — | — |
| 2021 | 355 | #797 | — | — |
| 2020 | 329 | #834 | — | — |
| 2019 | 328 | #829 | — | — |
| 2018 | 292 | #919 | — | — |
| 2017 | 311 | #881 | — | — |
| 2016 | 368 | #774 | — | — |
| 2015 | 315 | #880 | — | — |
| 2014 | 280 | #959 | — | — |
| 2013 | 323 | #830 | — | — |
| 2012 | 321 | #835 | — | — |
| 2011 | 361 | #763 | — | — |
| 2010 | 390 | #722 | — | — |
| 2009 | 469 | #637 | — | — |
| 2008 | 531 | #581 | — | — |
| 2007 | 657 | #493 | — | — |
| 2006 | 607 | #503 | — | — |
| 2005 | 791 | #399 | — | — |
| 2004 | 738 | #414 | — | — |
| 2003 | 725 | #417 | — | — |
| 2002 | 822 | #366 | — | — |
| 2001 | 648 | #428 | — | — |
| 2000 | 574 | #477 | — | — |
| 1999 | 589 | #453 | 5 | #11,156 |
| 1998 | 475 | #533 | — | — |
| 1997 | 519 | #483 | — | — |
| 1996 | 464 | #512 | — | — |
| 1995 | 428 | #549 | — | — |
| 1994 | 437 | #554 | — | — |
| 1993 | 470 | #520 | — | — |
| 1992 | 428 | #550 | — | — |
| 1991 | 415 | #563 | — | — |
| 1990 | 409 | #569 | — | — |
| 1989 | 295 | #687 | — | — |
| 1988 | 174 | #959 | — | — |
| 1987 | 138 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1986 | 106 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1981 | 77 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,201 | — | — |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,723 | — | — |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,345 | — | — |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 1951 | 25 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,593 | — | — |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1932 | 39 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1929 | 51 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1928 | 66 | #913 | — | — |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1926 | 48 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1925 | 78 | #845 | — | — |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1898 | 13 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1897 | 13 | #924 | — | — |
| 1896 | 15 | #866 | — | — |
| 1895 | 15 | #855 | — | — |
| 1894 | 13 | #893 | — | — |
| 1893 | 11 | #947 | — | — |
| 1892 | 12 | #894 | — | — |
| 1891 | 13 | #782 | — | — |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1888 | 10 | #879 | — | — |
| 1887 | 12 | #685 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #973 | — | — |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1884 | 12 | #635 | — | — |
| 1883 | 7 | #805 | — | — |
| 1882 | 9 | #665 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #666 | — | — |
| 1880 | 10 | #571 | — | — |
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).