Pauline
A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning small; feminine form of Paul.
Pauline by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Pauline. In the US, 60 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 7,222 babies in 1918, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Paul
Like Pauline, each of these traces back to Paul: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Paulsmall or humble1,684 in the US (2017)
- Pablosmall; a form of Paul696 in the US (2017)
- Paulosmall; Portuguese form of Paul71 in the US (2017)
- Paolosmall; Italian form of Paul60 in the US (2017)
- Pavelsmall or humble; form of Paul15 in England and Wales (2025)
- Paulinosmall, humble; a form of Paul22 in the US (2017)
- Pavlesmall or humble; a form of Paul14 in the US (2017)
- Jeanpaulgod is gracious and small; a compound of Jean and Paul11 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Pauline. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Pauline
Names that are said the same way as Pauline, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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