Paulina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Paulina är en femininform till det latinska Paulinus, som i sin tur är en bildning till Paulus (→ Paul)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 63 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/paulina/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Paulina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 171(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 390
- TZTanzania≈1 in 720few records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 364 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171 (inferred from the name graph)
224,208 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Paulina är en femininform till det latinska Paulinus, som i sin tur är en bildning till Paulus (→ Paul). Namnet Paulina bars av ett helgon på 300-talet. Pauline är den franska formen, belagd i Sverige från 1735. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 22 juni.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Paulina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Paulina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 224,208 | 1 in 171 | 224K | — | 2 |
| MX Mexico | #214 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 500 | Paulina | 243 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 716 | — | Paulina | 17 |
| CL Chile | #105 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 393 | 1 | Paulina | 170 |
| PE Peru | #196 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 790 | — | Paulina | 60 |
| AO Angola | #181 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Paulina | 21 |
224,208 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Paulina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Latin feminine form of Paulinus (see PAULINO ), borne by several minor early martyrs.
as a word
In Finnish, essive singular of Pauli
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Divdīgļlapju klases rožu apakšklases sapindu rindas sapindu dzimtas ģints ("Pailina"), kas sastopama Dienvidamerikā un no tiem iegūst dzērienu, kas satur kofeīnu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Marion Steinb. 1926ATnot in their usual nameAustrian-born British concert pianist
- Polly Bergenb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1930-2014)
- Paulina Garcíab. 1960CLChilean actress (born 1960)
- Paulina Rubiob. 1971MXMexican singer (born 1971)
- Paulina Andreyevab. 1988RURussian actress
- Eliot Sumnerb. 1990GBnot in their usual nameBritish musician
- Paulina Gotob. 1991MXMexican actress and singer
- Paulina Gaitánb. 1992MXMexican actress
- Paulina Vega Dieppab. 1993COColombian beauty pageant titleholder
- Paulina Chávezb. 2002USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)120 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 63 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 224K | #29 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 224K | #29 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 500 | #207 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 223 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Paulina a male or female name?
- Paulina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Ecuador (INEC, 2024), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Paulina?
- In the etymology graph, Pauline, Lien and Polina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Paulina have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 224 thousand people named Paulina, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Paulina most common?
- Paulina is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 171 people carrying it.
- What does the name Paulina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Paulina är en femininform till det latinska Paulinus, som i sin tur är en bildning till Paulus (→ Paul).
- How do you pronounce Paulina?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /paulina/; in Polish /pawˈli.na/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /pawlinɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- How common is the name Paulina?
- In Poland, the national register counted 224,208 people named Paulina in 2026, about 1 in 171 residents.
- How common is Paulina compared with other names?
- In Chile, Paulina is the 105th most common given name of 70,478 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paulina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paulinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Paulina” — the 105th most common given name in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.