Paulene
Paulene was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 1,416 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paulene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Paulene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,786, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1920, the peak
Paulene peaked in 1920, when 40 girls were given it, #1,227 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #19,786 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,287 | 3.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,571 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,049 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,832 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,920 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,128 | 5.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,168 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,081 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,407 | 7.5 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 9 | #6,101 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,107 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,203 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,072 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,725 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,953 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,131 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,436 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,889 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,428 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,645 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,753 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,729 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,655 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,283 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,653 | 9.9 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,875 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,542 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,848 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,452 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,282 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,489 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,385 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,231 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,234 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,394 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,237 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,777 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,079 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,706 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 36 | #1,358 | 27.1 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,549 | 21.5 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,963 | 14.8 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,493 | 23.2 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,082 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,623 | 21.0 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,588 | 21.7 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,835 | 17.9 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,362 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,409 | 26.7 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,539 | 23.0 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,507 | 24.8 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,480 | 25.3 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,449 | 25.4 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,694 | 20.4 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,364 | 28.7 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,821 | 19.1 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,760 | 20.1 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,612 | 22.8 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,567 | 23.8 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,525 | 24.8 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,455 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,455 | 26.6 |
| 1921 | 39 | #1,255 | 31.6 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,227 | 33.4 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,840 | 18.6 |
| 1918 | 31 | #1,405 | 26.8 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,466 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,624 | 22.0 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,868 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,801 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,455 | 27.2 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,103 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,522 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,707 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,469 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,048 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,310 | 15.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Paulene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paulene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Paulene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paulene, and how old are they?
An estimated 571 Americans named Paulene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 59 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 815 people named Paulene (808 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 695 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 249,195 babies since 1880, Paulene is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 402 babies recorded by SSA was a Paulene (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Paulene
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Paulene and names like it
- Compare Paulene and PaulineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sPaulene peaked in 1920.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paulene since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Paulene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Paulene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.