Entry № 8037 · French origin

Pauline Pauline — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ paw-LEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Small (Pauline Kael, film critic; Pauline Viardot)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "small (pauline kael, film critic; pauline viardot)".

Pauline is the French feminine of Paul — from the Latin paulus ("small, humble"). National Book Award for Deeper Into Movies (1973).

Small (Pauline Kael, film critic; Pauline Viardot) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Pauline
Transliteration
Pauline
Pronunciation
/ pɔːˈliːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pauline stands.

Pauline 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.

Paulines before her.

Real people
Pauline Kael
American film critic.
1919 – 2001
Pauline Viardot
French mezzo-soprano.
1821 – 1910
Pauline Bonaparte
Napoleon's sister.
1780 – 1825
In fiction
Pauline
Balzac's La Peau de chagrin.
1831

Names connected to Pauline.

The number behind Pauline.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pauline reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.