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Pauline: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #32 in 1915.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #32 in 1915; #2,986 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pauline in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,986 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1915, at #32.
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Pauline: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #32 in 1915 · most girls in one year: 7,222 (1918).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Pauline, making it the 2,986th most common girls’ name of the year, up 508 places from #3,494 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 45 girls named Pauline in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #32, reached in 1915. The most girls given the name in a single year was 7,222, in 1918. For comparison, it was #2,371 in 2015 and #163 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pauline in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 144 babies with the name. In all, 227,179 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 64,301 babies named Pauline.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 559 US girls were named Pauline; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Pauline ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,574 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), Paulina (20,142 babies since 1880) and Polina (1,334 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Paulene, Paulyne and Paolina are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Polly.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Paulene (1,416), Paulyne (332), Paolina (183), Palin (148), Paylin (138), Paulann (25), Paulanne (22), Paulin (15), Pavlina (10), Paulyn (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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,574 | — |
| California | 9 | #2,234 | #1,579 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,494 | — | — |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,919 | — | — |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 2015 | 78 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,081 | — | — |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,713 | — | — |
| 2007 | 95 | #2,128 | — | — |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 2005 | 114 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 2004 | 105 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 2001 | 129 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 2000 | 147 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1999 | 147 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1998 | 155 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1997 | 201 | #975 | — | — |
| 1996 | 192 | #986 | — | — |
| 1995 | 212 | #897 | — | — |
| 1994 | 226 | #867 | — | — |
| 1993 | 260 | #787 | — | — |
| 1992 | 223 | #889 | — | — |
| 1991 | 295 | #715 | — | — |
| 1990 | 275 | #756 | — | — |
| 1989 | 266 | #741 | — | — |
| 1988 | 222 | #821 | — | — |
| 1987 | 212 | #825 | — | — |
| 1986 | 219 | #776 | — | — |
| 1985 | 238 | #724 | — | — |
| 1984 | 231 | #716 | — | — |
| 1983 | 254 | #676 | — | — |
| 1982 | 256 | #685 | — | — |
| 1981 | 298 | #611 | — | — |
| 1980 | 290 | #630 | — | — |
| 1979 | 273 | #638 | — | — |
| 1978 | 314 | #555 | — | — |
| 1977 | 292 | #590 | — | — |
| 1976 | 326 | #536 | — | — |
| 1975 | 340 | #520 | — | — |
| 1974 | 387 | #465 | — | — |
| 1973 | 432 | #441 | — | — |
| 1972 | 466 | #418 | — | — |
| 1971 | 548 | #396 | — | — |
| 1970 | 633 | #378 | — | — |
| 1969 | 647 | #359 | — | — |
| 1968 | 692 | #333 | — | — |
| 1967 | 695 | #333 | — | — |
| 1966 | 795 | #316 | — | — |
| 1965 | 873 | #306 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,024 | #287 | 7 | #3,522 |
| 1963 | 1,030 | #284 | 6 | #3,918 |
| 1962 | 929 | #304 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,141 | #267 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,113 | #268 | 6 | #3,953 |
| 1959 | 1,217 | #249 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,209 | #248 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,343 | #229 | 7 | #3,476 |
| 1956 | 1,369 | #221 | 5 | #4,329 |
| 1955 | 1,351 | #221 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,423 | #210 | 8 | #3,112 |
| 1953 | 1,570 | #198 | 5 | #4,210 |
| 1952 | 1,595 | #186 | 9 | #2,824 |
| 1951 | 1,621 | #180 | 6 | #3,625 |
| 1950 | 1,739 | #163 | 8 | #2,960 |
| 1949 | 1,917 | #156 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,965 | #145 | 14 | #2,094 |
| 1947 | 2,178 | #137 | 9 | #2,819 |
| 1946 | 2,055 | #133 | 5 | #3,892 |
| 1945 | 1,975 | #125 | 8 | #2,709 |
| 1944 | 2,128 | #124 | 10 | #2,431 |
| 1943 | 2,459 | #112 | 10 | #2,519 |
| 1942 | 2,474 | #112 | 8 | #2,889 |
| 1941 | 2,352 | #109 | 9 | #2,607 |
| 1940 | 2,409 | #104 | 14 | #1,963 |
| 1939 | 2,414 | #105 | 24 | #1,384 |
| 1938 | 2,666 | #97 | 9 | #2,606 |
| 1937 | 2,818 | #87 | 21 | #1,515 |
| 1936 | 2,981 | #82 | 27 | #1,290 |
| 1935 | 3,076 | #80 | 20 | #1,576 |
| 1934 | 3,445 | #71 | 24 | #1,418 |
| 1933 | 3,542 | #64 | 19 | #1,629 |
| 1932 | 3,901 | #59 | 21 | #1,573 |
| 1931 | 4,192 | #56 | 22 | #1,524 |
| 1930 | 4,655 | #52 | 27 | #1,416 |
| 1929 | 5,026 | #50 | 25 | #1,473 |
| 1928 | 5,391 | #48 | 35 | #1,222 |
| 1927 | 6,011 | #42 | 33 | #1,288 |
| 1926 | 6,357 | #39 | 31 | #1,321 |
| 1925 | 6,728 | #38 | 21 | #1,728 |
| 1924 | 6,722 | #38 | 10 | #2,972 |
| 1923 | 6,707 | #37 | 19 | #1,855 |
| 1922 | 6,811 | #36 | 13 | #2,449 |
| 1921 | 7,142 | #37 | 19 | #1,881 |
| 1920 | 7,180 | #36 | 20 | #1,805 |
| 1919 | 6,973 | #36 | 13 | #2,355 |
| 1918 | 7,222 | #35 | 16 | #2,054 |
| 1917 | 6,896 | #33 | 22 | #1,572 |
| 1916 | 6,655 | #33 | 24 | #1,453 |
| 1915 | 6,334 | #32 | 11 | #2,411 |
| 1914 | 4,698 | #34 | 8 | #2,592 |
| 1913 | 3,636 | #35 | 10 | #1,911 |
| 1912 | 3,163 | #38 | 9 | #1,848 |
| 1911 | 2,345 | #38 | 9 | #1,262 |
| 1910 | 2,153 | #42 | 13 | #918 |
| 1909 | 1,896 | #48 | 7 | #1,243 |
| 1908 | 1,702 | #51 | 5 | #1,546 |
| 1907 | 1,591 | #52 | — | — |
| 1906 | 1,428 | #53 | 8 | #981 |
| 1905 | 1,381 | #54 | 9 | #903 |
| 1904 | 1,243 | #56 | — | — |
| 1903 | 1,042 | #62 | — | — |
| 1902 | 985 | #70 | — | — |
| 1901 | 938 | #64 | — | — |
| 1900 | 1,104 | #71 | — | — |
| 1899 | 811 | #72 | 6 | #1,027 |
| 1898 | 900 | #70 | — | — |
| 1897 | 777 | #72 | — | — |
| 1896 | 756 | #75 | 5 | #1,226 |
| 1895 | 734 | #76 | — | — |
| 1894 | 656 | #80 | — | — |
| 1893 | 545 | #86 | 6 | #1,002 |
| 1892 | 526 | #92 | — | — |
| 1891 | 455 | #93 | — | — |
| 1890 | 475 | #90 | — | — |
| 1889 | 415 | #95 | — | — |
| 1888 | 393 | #98 | — | — |
| 1887 | 314 | #104 | — | — |
| 1886 | 276 | #111 | — | — |
| 1885 | 254 | #109 | — | — |
| 1884 | 230 | #114 | — | — |
| 1883 | 198 | #113 | — | — |
| 1882 | 204 | #108 | — | — |
| 1881 | 166 | #110 | — | — |
| 1880 | 144 | #115 | — | — |
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).