Pauleen
Marie Pauleen Javier Luna-Sotto is a Filipino actress and television host. She is the wife of Vic Sotto and has been a regular host of the long-running Philippine noontime variety show Eat Bulaga! since 2005, where she portrays the childlike character Baby Poleng.
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Meaning & Origin of Pauleen
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Marie Pauleen Javier Luna-Sotto is a Filipino actress and television host. She is the wife of Vic Sotto and has been a regular host of the long-running Philippine noontime variety show Eat Bulaga! since 2005, where she portrays the childlike character Baby Poleng.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Pauleen
Pauleen first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1916, with 10 babies given the name that year. Its peak popularity came in 1918, when 11 Pauleens were born — ranking #2,822 that year. As of 2026, Pauleen ranks #13,518 for baby girls with 5 births, with steady use. In total, more than 142 Pauleens have been born in the U.S. since records began in 1880, spanning the 1910s through the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Pauleen
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About the name Pauleen
Pauleen is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1916 and has accumulated 142 births in the dataset. Pauleen's peak popularity came in 1918 when it ranked #2,822. Use the chart and map above to compare Pauleen's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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