Paulena
Paulena was last recorded in 1998, when 6 babies were given it; 126 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paulena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Paulena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Paulena is “a female given name from Latin.”
A rare (non-standard) variant of Paulina.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Paulena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,676, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1991, the peak
Paulena peaked in 1991, when 12 girls were given it, #7,274 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6 | #13,676 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,484 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,212 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,556 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,426 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,432 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,274 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,464 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,877 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,864 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 | #7,303 | 2.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,199 | 3.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,105 | 5.7 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,971 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,431 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,461 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,713 | 4.0 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,597 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,399 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,457 | 7.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Paulena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paulena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Paulena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paulena, and how old are they?
An estimated 76 Americans named Paulena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 208 people named Paulena (208 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 82 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 249,378 babies since 1880, Paulena is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 410 babies recorded by SSA was a Paulena (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Paulena and names like it
- Compare Paulena and PaulineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sPaulena peaked in 1991.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Paulena: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Paulena.
- Names starting with PMost given first.