Paulette — #1407 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Paulette

The Social Security Administration has registered 46,947 babies named Paulette between 1907 and 2024, spanning 118 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Paulette currently holds the #1407 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1948, when 2,579 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Paulette performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 15,902 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Paulette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 3,884 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Paulette in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Paulette 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 46,947 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.