Paulla
Paulla was last recorded in 1991, when 6 babies were given it; 262 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Paulla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Paulla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,646, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1951, the peak
Paulla peaked in 1951, when 14 girls were given it, #2,894 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #12,646 | 3.2 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,632 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,447 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,204 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,426 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,726 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,831 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,037 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,888 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,665 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 8 | #5,170 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,041 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,587 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,306 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,696 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,422 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,267 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,906 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,653 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,983 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,450 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,497 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,505 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,894 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,878 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,817 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,537 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,186 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,606 | 5.7 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,315 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,194 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,200 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Paulla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Paulla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Paulla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Paulla, and how old are they?
An estimated 208 Americans named Paulla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 59 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 320 people named Paulla (316 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 224 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% 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).
How common is the spelling Paulla?
Paulla is a less common spelling of Paula: SSA has recorded 262 Paulla and 281,769 Paula since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 306,868 babies since 1880, Paulla is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 496 babies recorded by SSA was a Paulla (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 Paulla
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 Paulla and names like it
- Compare Paulla and PaulaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPaulla peaked in 1951.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Paulla.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Paulla alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.