In 2025, 12 US boys were named Paulino, making it the 7,089th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,253 places from #5,836 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 16 boys named Paulino in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,553, reached in 1928. The most boys given the name in a single year was 37, in 1995. For comparison, it was #5,921 in 2015 and #2,178 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Paulino in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 8 babies. In all, 1,788 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 261 babies named Paulino.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 165 US boys were named Paulino; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Paul (1,404,135 babies since 1880), Pablo (50,439 babies since 1880), Paulo (5,031 babies since 1880) and Paolo (3,739 babies since 1880).