Pavel

given name · Czech · Latin script

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

Pavel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 34th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Russian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Paul.

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●

a male given name, equivalent to English Paul

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Pavel 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●

  • Czech1.9M81%
  • Russian145K6%
  • Lithuanian49K2%
  • English39K2%
  • Polish37K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech1,925,43981%
Russian145,2576%
Lithuanian49,0202%
English38,8092%
Polish37,3312%

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◐

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

  • Spanish given name99K records spelled Pavel11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, Mexico, France, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Romanian, French

    Also written Pável, Pavél, Pàvel, Pàvéĺ

  • Lithuanian given name50K records spelled Pavel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, United States

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Pavėl, Pável

  • a separate given name8.4K records spelled Pavel5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Påvel, Pável, Pāvel, Pavël

  • Uzbek given name2.8K records spelled Pavel21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz

    Also written Павел, Paul, Паул, Павёл, Pavèl

75 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●

Pavel 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.

  • In German, Zu Paul; Karte zeigt Variation mit -v-, -w- und -l(l). 1+457 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, Patronym zu Paulus; dt. oder tschech. 457 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In English, Russian form of Paul.

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  • In German, männl. Vom., tschechische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Russian, Small See Pollock

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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●

02550751001980199020002010202083 · 2008

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Pavel in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1971–2025
Yearrecords
19715
19726
19775
19786
19796
19805
19816
19827
19835
198810
19898
199010
19919
199221
199324
199431
199531
199634
199724
199837
199940
200048
200141
200245
200353
200463
200559
200662
200774
200883
200971
201047
201143
201254
201345
201448
201534
201640
201741
201840
201935
202027
202125
202231
202332
202436
202537

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 47 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Paul I of Russia, b. 1754Pavel Nakhimov, b. 1802Paval Sukhi, b. 1895Pavel Alexandrov, b. 1896Pavel Cherenkov, b. 1904Pavel Belyayev, b. 1925Pavel Nedvěd, b. 1972Pavel Pogrebnyak, b. 1983Pavel Durov, b. 1984Pasha Parfeni, b. 1986

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 95 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Pavel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—402K#7
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—201K#7
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—20K#63
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names—16K#39
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai—16K#39
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20269K#185
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.7K#2,700
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—8.5K#186
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—2.9K#44
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—2.9K#44
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.3K#979
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2K#1,740

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 622 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pavel?
We estimate roughly 3.9 million people bear Pavel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Pavel have the most bearers?
Pavel is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled павел.
Where is Pavel most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pavel is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 27 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Pavel compared with other names?
In Russia, Pavel is the 34th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Pavel a male or female name?
Pavel 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 Pavel mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Paul
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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, “Pavel” — the 34th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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