Pauletta
Pauletta was last recorded in 1997, when 8 babies were given it; 2,522 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Pauletta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 60 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pauletta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pauletta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,530, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
107 babies in 1948, the peak
Pauletta peaked in 1948, when 107 girls were given it, #847 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 8 | #10,530 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,021 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,112 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,427 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,120 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,885 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,139 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,709 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,307 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,558 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 7 | #9,505 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,462 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,901 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,795 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,165 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,917 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,323 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,728 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,577 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,822 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,480 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,283 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,114 | 26.1 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,839 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,036 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,979 | 24.6 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,338 | 18.4 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,230 | 18.3 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,808 | 25.4 |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,757 | 24.8 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,759 | 23.8 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,658 | 25.9 |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,642 | 25.4 |
| 1962 | 56 | #1,505 | 28.5 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,763 | 21.3 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,480 | 27.7 |
| 1959 | 65 | #1,333 | 32.1 |
| 1958 | 65 | #1,315 | 32.3 |
| 1957 | 71 | #1,249 | 34.7 |
| 1956 | 70 | #1,247 | 34.9 |
| 1955 | 75 | #1,154 | 38.4 |
| 1954 | 90 | #1,036 | 46.3 |
| 1953 | 72 | #1,144 | 38.3 |
| 1952 | 83 | #1,036 | 44.8 |
| 1951 | 88 | #999 | 48.9 |
| 1950 | 78 | #1,035 | 45.5 |
| 1949 | 107 | #853 | 62.5 |
| 1948 | 107 | #847 | 63.0 |
| 1947 | 97 | #903 | 54.7 |
| 1946 | 88 | #890 | 56.0 |
| 1945 | 75 | #872 | 57.4 |
| 1944 | 78 | #866 | 58.8 |
| 1943 | 73 | #912 | 52.3 |
| 1942 | 81 | #857 | 60.0 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,528 | 22.3 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,672 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,708 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,126 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,696 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,125 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,478 | 24.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,718 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,673 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,607 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,238 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,533 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,879 | 9.9 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,432 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,715 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,739 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,913 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,893 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,323 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,946 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,846 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,707 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,159 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pauletta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pauletta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pauletta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pauletta, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 2,522 Americans ever recorded as Pauletta. The median Pauletta alive today is 69 years old; half are between 60 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 1,769 people named Pauletta (1,768 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,999 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 213 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,070 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 383 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 126 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Pauletta born?
The states with the most babies named Pauletta are Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Indiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 221 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Ohio | 139 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 113 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Missouri | 80 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 64 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 62 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 48 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| West Virginia | 48 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 42 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Pauletta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pauletta is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1917 it was given 4.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pauletta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 50,847 babies since 1880, Pauletta is the second most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 138 babies recorded by SSA was a Pauletta (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 Pauletta
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 Pauletta and names like it
- Compare Pauletta and PauletteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sPauletta peaked in 1948.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pauletta since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Pauletta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pauletta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.