Pauletta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Pauletta

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,522 babies named Pauletta between 1917 and 1997, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pauletta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1948, when 107 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pauletta performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 757 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Pauletta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 221 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Pauletta in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pauletta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,522 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.