Pauline
Pauline is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. Its best rank was 32nd, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 450.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19187,222 births
- Best rank
- #32in 1915
- Since 1880
- 226,348people given the name
The story in the numbers
226,348 girls have been named Pauline in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 7,222 births — 0.62% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 45 births in 2024, against 7,222 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 118 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 51 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Pauline | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,594 | |
| 1890s | 6,635 | |
| 1900s | 13,310 | |
| 1910s | 50,075 | |
| 1920s | 64,075 | |
| 1930s | 33,690 | |
| 1940s | 21,912 | |
| 1950s | 14,436 | |
| 1960s | 8,938 | |
| 1970s | 4,012 | |
| 1980s | 2,486 | |
| 1990s | 2,188 | |
| 2000s | 1,097 | |
| 2010s | 633 | |
| 2020s | 267 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Pauline was the 35th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Pauline
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Helenpeak 1918
- Myrticepeak 1918
- Dorotheapeak 1920
- Adellpeak 1921
- Ermapeak 1920
- Marionpeak 1924
- Bernicepeak 1921
- Margarettepeak 1921
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.