Girls' name · peaked in 1946

Paulette name popularity since 1925

46,922 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Paulette. Half of them were born in 1953 or earlier, so the typical Paulette is about 73 years old in 2026. Paulette peaked in 1946 as the #117 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 46,922; Named Paulette, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1946; #117 for girls that year
Typical age: About 73; Median birth year 1953
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #1,536 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.9% girls; 46,857 girls · 65 boys
Most popular in: North Dakota; 3.61× its national share

Peak year is the year Paulette made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Paulette births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year by count was 1948. Measured as a share of all babies, Paulette peaked in 1946.

Fastest rise: Between 1939 and 1944, Paulette became 12× more common, from 1 in 11,000 baby girls to 1 in 923.
Steepest fall: Between 1971 and 1976, its share of baby girls fell by 70%, from 1 in 2,450 to 1 in 8,050.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Paulette's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Paulette.

Decade by decade

Babies named Paulette in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	165	0	–
1930s	591	0	#944
1940s	15,902	40	#148
1950s	14,883	20	#225
1960s	7,430	5	#343
1970s	3,640	0	#627
1980s	1,227	0	#1,255
1990s	792	0	#2,211
2000s	403	0	#4,095
2010s	1,010	0	#2,054
2020–25	814	0	#1,536

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

61.8% of babies named Paulette from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Baby Boom years (1946–1964). The full split by generation:

Where Paulette is most popular

The index compares Paulette's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Paulette.

State	Index	Babies
North Dakota	3.61×	503
Hawaii	2.82×	389
District of Columbia	2.52×	514
Rhode Island	2.32×	363
Louisiana	2.22×	1,764

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Paulette's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Paulette.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Paulette (1946).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data