Paulin
A male form beside the far more common Paulina, but almost no one carries it: around 64 people, nearly all of them men. The Latin root Paulinus means "small" or "humble".
Paulin Pronunciation
Paulin is pronounced pah-OO-leen (/paˈulin/).
What Paulin means
Where Paulin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Paulin grows from the Latin adjective paulus, meaning small. Romans used it as a cognomen, a family label that marked someone as the younger or lesser of a house. French took the root and kept Paulin as a masculine name, set beside the feminine Pauline.
The sense of small softened over the centuries toward humble. That drift owes something to Saint Paulin de Nole, the Roman poet and bishop of the fourth century who gave his wealth away. His Latin name was Paulinus. Readers of his letters met a man who wore smallness as a choice.
In Poland the name arrives mostly through its cross-gender partner, Paulina. Read a register in a Kraków classroom and the feminine answers far more often than Paulin. Both hold the same short sense: small, humble. The root stays fixed at paulus.
When Paulin celebrates name day
Paulin appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 22 June.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Paulin
1 in 349938 men in Poland is named Paulin. 64 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4580 among male names.
Paulin as a middle name
Paulin is a first name for 64 men in Poland and a middle name for another 95, a 40/60 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 734th, between Marcjan (95) and Salvatore (95).
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#732 Lionel95
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#733 Marcjan95
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#734 Paulin95
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#735 Salvatore95
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#736 Theodore95