Pavlo

Spellings & scripts●

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Pavlo is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name6.2K records spelled Pavlo9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Ukraine, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Pawlo, Pävlo

39 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●

Pavlo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Павло (Pavlo)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Pavlo Skoropadskyb. 1873DEUkrainian general (1873-1945)
• Ostap Vyshniab. 1889UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer (1889–1956)
• Pavel Sudoplatovb. 1907UAnot in their usual nameSoviet spy (1907–1996)
• Pavel Popovichb. 1930UAnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut (1930–2009)
• Pavlo Lazarenkob. 1953UAUkrainian politician, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, criminal
• Pavlo Yakovenkob. 1964UAUkrainian footballer (born 1964)
• DJ Pashab. 1977UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian radio and television presenter (born 1977)
• Pavlo Petrenkob. 1979UAUkrainian politician
• Pavel Gubarevb. 1983UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian separatist leader (born 1983)
• Pavlo Lib. 1988UAUkrainian actor (1998-2022)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 165 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pavlo?

We estimate roughly 3.9 million people bear Pavlo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Pavlo have the most bearers?

Pavlo is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled павел.

Where is Pavlo most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pavlo is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 27 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Pavlo compared with other names?

In Russia, Pavlo is the 34th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Pavlo a male or female name?

Pavlo 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.