Paulette is the French diminutive of Paule — from the Latin paulus ("small, humble"). (1943). Paulette Nardal (1896-1985) — Martinique-born French writer; pioneer of the Négritude literary and political movement of the 1930s alongside Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor; her Paris salon was the intellectual cradle of the movement.
Paulette does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Paulette reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.