Given name & surname
Pauletta
“a petite woman”
Pauletta is a variant of Paula. In English use, Paula carries the interpretation “a petite woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Pauletta is a variant of Paula. In English use, Paula carries the interpretation “a petite woman.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pauletta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,522
- 0 boys · 2,522 girls
- Most popular year
- 1948
- 107 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,769 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pauletta’s family of names
Pauletta has a related form in Paula.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pauletta
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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