girls:
19.4k births since 1880
#1051 (82nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1999
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
19.4k births since 1880
#1841 (76th percentile)
The name Paulina is the #1,841 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,432 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 76.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,051 (81.6% percentile) for all time with 19,427 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1999.
Paulina has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1999 for boys).
The name Paulina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Paulina reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 62.2% percentile (ranked #339) with 416 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 416 births per million (ranked 62.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Paulina ranks #610 for girls (35.6% percentile) with 207 births per million, which is 49.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Paulina reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #805) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Paulina".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Paulina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.8% confident that Paulina is pronounced as paw-LEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PAW-lee-nuh, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like P AO0 L IY1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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