Paulino
Paulino was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,085 among boys’ names; 1,788 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Paulino and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 19 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paulino by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Paulino mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Paulino is “a male given name from Spanish”
Borrowed from Spanish, diminutive of Paulo.
/pawˈlino/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Paulino?
#7,085 among boys’ names, 2025
Paulino fell from #5,917 in 2015 to #7,085 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 7.0 per million.
37 babies in 1995, the peak
Paulino peaked in 1995, when 37 boys were given it, #2,195 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,085 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,831 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,144 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,166 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,716 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,175 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,025 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,487 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,553 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,731 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,917 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,094 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,921 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,491 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,135 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,333 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,242 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,354 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,605 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,746 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,906 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,428 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,762 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,284 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 35 | #2,718 | 18.0 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,497 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,342 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,067 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,798 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,544 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 37 | #2,195 | 19.4 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,914 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,488 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,514 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,659 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,929 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,334 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,569 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,036 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 28 | #2,086 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,208 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,787 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,642 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,937 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,252 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,506 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,864 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,031 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #3,006 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,155 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,266 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,433 | 10.8 |
| 1973 | 21 | #2,016 | 13.5 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,223 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,929 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,975 | 11.3 |
| 1969 | 22 | #1,795 | 12.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,416 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,227 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,580 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,148 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,620 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,382 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,167 | 7.3 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,310 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,647 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,624 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,977 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,966 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,135 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,285 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,897 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,367 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,635 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,805 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,177 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,568 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,295 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,819 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,709 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,050 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,163 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,668 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,299 | 9.0 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,764 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,437 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,109 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,627 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,817 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,227 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,069 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,435 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,822 | 16.4 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,224 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,914 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,553 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,656 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,689 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 19 | #1,855 | 17.0 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,322 | 12.4 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,570 | 10.9 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,182 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,430 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,419 | 7.5 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,619 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,874 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,411 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,592 | 12.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Paulino a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paulino has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Paulino: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paulino, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,788 Americans ever recorded as Paulino. The median Paulino alive today is 32 years old; half are between 19 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 4,668 people named Paulino (49 women and girls, 4,619 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,354 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 30 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 134 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 239 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 360 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 395 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 222 |
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 Paulino born?
The states with the most babies named Paulino are Texas, California and Hawaii, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 515 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| California | 275 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Hawaii | 6 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Paulino is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Paulino is most over-represented in Texas: since 1914 it was given 3.6 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 boys’ 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 Paulino with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Paulino
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 Paulino and names like it
- Compare Paulino and SerafinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sPaulino peaked in 1995.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Paulino since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Paulino: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Paulino.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Paulino alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.