Paulette

Where Paulette comes from

Borrowed in the twentieth century from French Paulette, a diminutive feminine form of Paul.
— Wiktionary's entry for Paulette
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1907
    First appearance
    #2,061 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1910
    Paulette Dubost born
    French actress
  3. 1910
    Paulette Goddard born
    American actress
  4. 1946
    Peak, #117
    2,520 babies named Paulette — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1956
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #234.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Paulette Goddard · American actress, 1910–1990
  • Paulette Dubost · French actress, 1910–2011
  • Paulette Cooper · American journalist and writer, born 1942
  • Paulette Libermann · French mathematician, 1919–2007
  • Paulette Jordan · American politician from Idaho, born 1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.