Pauline

Pauline across 5 registrars

• Pauline did not peak everywhere at once. It reached its best position in New South Wales, Australia in 1954 and in England and Wales in 1998, 44 years later.
• The longest ranked record is in Norway, from 1946 to 2023.

Each panel runs 1946 to 2025, top of the panel is #1 on a log scale, with guide lines at #1 and #100. Filled dot: best rank. Open dot: latest rank. Read from 5 official registrars with at least 10 ranked years. Where a registrar publishes separate lists by sex, the better rank for each year is used. A 'meaningful' move is 10 or more places. Lists start in different years, so an earlier first year shows the list is older, not that the name arrived there first, and a best rank in the first years of a list is not compared as a peak. Ranks show position, and cannot show why a name moved.

Where Pauline is officially recorded

5 official registrars have recorded Pauline, between 1946 and 2025, in 75 of those 80 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Its high point came 44 years earlier in New South Wales, Australia (1954) than in England and Wales (1998).

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 1946; it appears again in 1952.