Paulie

Where Paulie comes from

From Paul + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Paulie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1920
    First appearance
    #3,815 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1927
    Peak, #2,523
    11 babies named Paulie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Paul.
Namesakes

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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.