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Girl · Latin, through French
Paulette
Say it: poh-LET
Meaning
Feminine diminutive of Paul, from Latin paulus 'small'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A favourite of 1920s–30s France, now very rare.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1940s
In the United States
- 46,459 babies given this name since 1907
- At its height in 1946, about 1 in 624 girls
- 122 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Paulette Goddard, actor
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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