Paolo

given name · Italian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Paolo is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 34th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Italian and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Italian form of Paul; Lat.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 27◐
  • PLPoland1 in 76
  • PTPortugal1 in 84

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.9M ●

across 10 countries

#11 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
621 ●

32M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 27 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

PauloLatin · Portuguese●21M records
ПавелCyrillic · Russian●8M records
ᲞავლეGeorgian · Georgian●5.9K records
ΠαυλοςGreek · Greek●3.4K records
바울Hangul · Korean●1.3K records
ጳውሎስEthiopic · Amharic●235 records
โพเวลThai · Thai●25 records
ՊավելArmenian · Armenian●21 records
פאלHebrew · Yiddish●0 records

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Paul in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 9 more, Pablo in AR Argentina, ES Spain, MX Mexico and 6 more, Павел in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and Paulo in BR Brazil, PT Portugal.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Italian form of Paul; Lat. paulus 'small'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Paolo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#347,590,6052.8M rec.—#16Павел255
AR Argentina#194,071,3772.5M rec.—1.2KPablo227
UA Ukraine#451,886,4181.9M rec.—listedПавло131
GB United Kingdom#121,654,7301.4M rec.—4Paul376
BR Brazil#91,331,6391.6M rec.1 in 1591.4MPaulo272
US United States#19906,11615M rec.1 in 367906KPaul621
MX Mexico#65839,053731K rec.—1.4KPablo262
AU Australia#12795,214606K rec.—1Paul366
PE Peru#36695,731615K rec.——Pablo127
VE Venezuela#46524,013177K rec.——Pablo112
PL Poland#8502,076△161K rec.1 in 76504KPaweł238
PH Philippines#15465,903421K rec.——Paul185

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Italian224K33%
  • Spanish150K22%
  • English70K10%
  • French57K8%
  • Portuguese48K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Italian224,42533%
Spanish150,33522%
English70,29810%
French57,2818%
Portuguese47,8517%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Paolo is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name93K records spelled Paolo10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

    Also written Pao-Lo, Paólo, Pâólò, Påolo, 'Paolo

  • Hindi given name5.3K records spelled Paolo11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Paulo, পাওলো, Pawlo, Poulo

  • Finnish given name3.3K records spelled Paolo5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Italy, Philippines, Slovenia

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Pâõlõ, Paõlõ

  • Thai given name2.9K records spelled Paolo20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Italy, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Paulo, เปาโล, Pual, Paulos, Paulós

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Paolo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • From Latin. See }Paul in main dictionary. Feminine form: Paola.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Paul.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, Paul (biblical character)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, Latino paulus, 'piccolo'; nome assunto da San Paolo dopo la conversione per umiltà.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In French, Forme italienne de Paul, du latin Paulus, « petit, humble ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0102030194019601980200025 · 1986

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Paolo in datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015), Argentina, 1926–2015
Yearrecords
19261
19281
19291
19302
19343
19353
19361
19381
19393
19401
19411
19426
19434
19445
19462
19475
19482
19494
19502
19527
19574
19583
19591
19612
19624
19634
19642
19652
196611
19673
19682
19697
19704
19717
19721
19734
19749
19753
19765
19772
19789
197910
198014
198122
198217
198312
198410
198523
198625
198712
198820
198915
199013
199116
19928
199314
199410
19956
19965
19979
19984
199910
200015
20015
20027
20034
20047
20059
200614
200714
20087
20097
20104
20112
20128
201311
20148
20158

AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 78 years between 1926–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Paolo Uccello, b. 1397Camillo Benso di Cavour, b. 1810Paolo Stoppa, b. 1906Paolo Gentiloni, b. 1954Paolo Rossi, b. 1956Paolo Costella, b. 1964Paolo Genovese, b. 1966Paolo Maldini, b. 1968Paolo Sorrentino, b. 1970Paolo Guerrero, b. 1984

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 103 sources across 51 countries.

Official registers attesting Paolo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20248.4K#278
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.3K#3,355
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.3K#4,564
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.2K#5,612
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2K#1,740
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.8K#824
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.4K#598
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021669—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021625#680
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024555#67
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—498#2,787

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 832 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Paolo?
We estimate roughly 3.9 million people bear Paolo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Paolo have the most bearers?
Paolo is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled павел.
Where is Paolo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paolo is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 27 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Paolo compared with other names?
In Russia, Paolo is the 34th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Paolo a male or female name?
Paolo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Paolo mean?
Recorded meaning: Italian form of Paul; Lat.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Paolo” — the 34th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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