Paulette is a girl's name of German origin meaning “small.” In 2024 it was given to 158 girls in the United States.
Paulette at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
German · French
Meaning
“small”
About the name Paulette
Paulette belongs to the German and French tradition. Its meaning — “small” — is the sense carried by its German roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Paulette first appears in Social Security records in 1907. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #117 in 1946, and in 2024 158 babies received the name — 46,947 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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