Paulette
Paulette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 158 births. Its best rank was 117th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1580.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19482,579 births
- Best rank
- #117in 1946
- Since 1907
- 46,947people given the name
The story in the numbers
46,947 girls have been named Paulette in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1948, with 2,579 births — 0.15% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1940s alone account for 34%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Paulette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 76 | |
| 1920s | 314 | |
| 1930s | 591 | |
| 1940s | 15,902 | |
| 1950s | 14,883 | |
| 1960s | 7,430 | |
| 1970s | 3,640 | |
| 1980s | 1,227 | |
| 1990s | 792 | |
| 2000s | 403 | |
| 2010s | 1,010 | |
| 2020s | 674 |
In 1948, its biggest year
Paulette was the 123rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1948 were Linda, Mary, Barbara, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1948.
Names that rose and fell with Paulette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lindapeak 1947
- Lyndapeak 1947
- Diannepeak 1947
- Lyndiapeak 1948
- Paulettapeak 1948
- Diannpeak 1947
- Marshapeak 1952
- Kathepeak 1951
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.