girls:
226.3k births since 1880
#175 (97th percentile)
boys:
775 births since 1893
#3812 (17th percentile)
overall:
227.1k births since 1880
#350 (95th percentile)
The name Pauline is the #350 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 227,077 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #175 (97.0% percentile) for all time with 226,302 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,812 (16.8% percentile) for all time with 775 births since 1893.
Pauline has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1893 for boys).
The name Pauline has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Pauline reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 94.4% percentile (ranked #32) with 6,186 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 6,186 births per million (ranked 94.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Pauline ranks #889 for girls (6.1% percentile) with 36 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Pauline reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #513) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 63 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1964.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pauline".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Pauline. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.9% confident that Pauline is pronounced as paw-LEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PAW-leen, at 37.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like P AO0 L IY1 N) 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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