Paulette

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Paulette is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Paule/Paul; 'small'.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 682◐
  • ECEcuador1 in 5K
  • BEBelgium1 in 5.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈44K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
268 ●

153K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.0K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

Diminutive of Paule/Paul; 'small'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Paulette is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#159774,46392K rec.—213KPaulette259
US United States—39,17535K rec.1 in 8.5K39KPaulette268
CL Chile#6858,758709 rec.—16Paulette59
MX Mexico—6,8914.2K rec.—5Paulette112
EC Ecuador—3,352△88 rec.1 in 5K3.4KPaulette26
BE Belgium#6982,7253K rec.—9Paulette37
CA Canada—1,8121.9K rec.—5Paulette81
AR Argentina—1,6351.7K rec.—30Paulette34
CO Colombia—1,203994 rec.——Paulette33
PA Panama#2781,0981.1K rec.—1Paulette21
EG Egypt—1,008975 rec.——Paulette16
GB United Kingdom—1,0021.3K rec.—listedPaulette51

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Languages●

  • French803K54%
  • English527K36%
  • Spanish41K3%
  • 39K3%
  • German8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French803,15554%
English527,01536%
Spanish41,1483%
38,8153%
German7,9901%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Paulette is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name606K records spelled Paulette13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pâülêttê, Päúlêtte

  • Hindi given name2.5K records spelled Paulette10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written Plete, Plate, Pollet, পলেট, Pullet

  • Chinese given name1.7K records spelled Paulette2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Canada

    Also written Pauletta

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Paulette 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.

  • In English, French; small feminine form of Paul.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Feminine pet form of PauL.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • French: diminutive feminine form of PAUL . It is widely used in the English-speaking world, where, however, it is a more recent importation than PAULINE .

    as a word

  • In Latvian, Francijas 1604. gada likums, kas legalizēja tiesu un finanšu pārvaldes amatu pirkšanas kārtību, iesaukts pēc valsts amatu nomnieka Šarla Polē ("Paulet") vārda, bija spēkā līdz 1789. g.

    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.

Over time●

01K2K3K1920194019601980200020202.6K · 1948

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Paulette in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1907–2025
Yearrecords
19075
19106
191313
19157
19169
191713
191814
191914
192027
192133
192228
192330
192431
192530
192637
192737
192834
192927
193024
193133
193248
193354
193446
193555
193682
193768
193881
1939100
1940223
1941277
1942963
19431,440
19441,438
19451,575
19462,520
19472,334
19482,579
19492,553
19501,953
19512,148
19521,886
19531,763
19541,485
19551,298
19561,234
19571,092
19581,068
1959956
1960854
1961774
1962741
1963858
1964838
1965707
1966690
1967701
1968629
1969638
1970805
1971680
1972466
1973385
1974312
1975252
1976182
1977190
1978210
1979158
1980156
1981142
1982126
198399
1984120
1985109
198690
198788
1988144
1989153
1990112
1991112
1992100
199394
199479
199561
199680
199766
199856
199932
200044
200131
200237
200341
200430
200535
200633
200761
200846
200945
2010140
2011130
201285
201395
201484
201596
201678
201770
2018101
2019131
2020124
2021127
2022131
2023135
2024159
2025138

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 114 years between 1907–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Paulette Goddard, b. 1910Paulette Dubost, b. 1910Paulette Brisepierre, b. 1917Emmanuelle Riva, b. 1927Etchika Choureau, b. 1929Françoise Dorléac, b. 1942Ntozake Shange, b. 1948Paulette Bourgeois, b. 1951Alexandra Lamy, b. 1971Paulette Gebara Farah, b. 2005

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 78 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Paulette
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2020213K#3,325
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202039K#1,062
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.4K#450
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010890#27,185
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000879#26,163
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020864#29,195
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—536#1,922
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025371#265
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—217#5,203
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025138—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2024114—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—104#5,256

Reference works 4

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 698 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Paulette?
We estimate roughly 44 thousand people bear Paulette (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Paulette have the most bearers?
Paulette is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled paulette.
How common is Paulette compared with other names?
In France, Paulette is the 159th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
Is Paulette a male or female name?
Paulette is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Paulette mean?
Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Paule/Paul; 'small'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Paulette” — the 159th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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