Paulina is the Latin feminine of Paulinus, diminutive of Paulus (Paul) — "small, humble." A top-1000 US baby name since 1988. Married Ric Ocasek of The Cars in 1989; her advocacy for older women in modeling after his 2019 death has been widely covered. Eight Latin Grammy nominations. Paulina Vega — Miss Universe 2014 (Colombia). Paulina Wakefield — Tom Brown's School Days (1857). Saint Paulina of Egypt (4th century).
Paulina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Paulina reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.