Pauline is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Pauline is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Pauline. In the SmartGenius ranking, Pauline is #2,521 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 199,769 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Pauline. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Pauline is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Pauline for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Pauline is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Pauline is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 32 Pauline easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1915.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Pauline was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 57 babies were named Pauline in the USA in 2022, ranking it #2,606 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2021, when it was only ranked at #2,873 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 49 girls were named Pauline.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Pauline. Because: There are women and girls named Pauline in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Pauline is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Maine, where Pauline ranks on place 40. The greatest chance of meeting Pauline, however, is in New Hampshire, where one in 188 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 772 women and girls and in Nevada, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 26,276 women and girls for their name before you once get Pauline as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, P is by no means the rarest initial. While A, S and M are the most common first letters of girls' names, Q, X and U are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With seven letters, the name Pauline has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.6% of all girls’ names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a P, Patricia is currently the most common.
If your name is Pauline and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Pauline, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Unicorn
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Pauline
Pauline
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
U
L
I
N
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
A
U
L
I
N
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Pauline sounds like this:
