Pawel
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pawel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 34th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Paulus; dt., sorb., poln.
- 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 ●
- #11 ●
- 9 ●
- Sources
- 621 ●
- 1 in 27 ◐
across 10 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
32M records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
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●
Patronym zu Paulus; dt., sorb., poln. oder tschech. Ursprungs. 254 Träger.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #34 | 7,590,605 | 2.8M rec. | — | #16 | Павел | 255 |
| AR Argentina | #19 | 4,071,377 | 2.5M rec. | — | 1.2K | Pablo | 227 |
| UA Ukraine | #45 | 1,886,418 | 1.9M rec. | — | listed | Павло | 131 |
| GB United Kingdom | #12 | 1,654,730 | 1.4M rec. | — | 4 | Paul | 376 |
| BR Brazil | #9 | 1,331,639 | 1.6M rec. | 1 in 159 | 1.4M | Paulo | 272 |
| US United States | #19 | 906,116 | 15M rec. | 1 in 367 | 906K | Paul | 621 |
| MX Mexico | #65 | 839,053 | 731K rec. | — | 1.4K | Pablo | 262 |
| AU Australia | #12 | 795,214 | 606K rec. | — | 1 | Paul | 366 |
| PE Peru | #36 | 695,731 | 615K rec. | — | — | Pablo | 127 |
| VE Venezuela | #46 | 524,013 | 177K rec. | — | — | Pablo | 112 |
| PL Poland | #8 | 502,076△ | 161K rec. | 1 in 76 | 504K | Paweł | 238 |
| PH Philippines | #15 | 465,903 | 421K rec. | — | — | Paul | 185 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish113K60%
- English23K12%
- German11K6%
- Norwegian Bokmål7.5K4%
- French5.4K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 112,743 | 60% |
| English | 23,131 | 12% |
| German | 10,742 | 6% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 7,468 | 4% |
| French | 5,443 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Pawel is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Pawel och Pavel är slaviska former av → Paul.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, from Paulus, Latin paulus 'small'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Russian, var of Pavel.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In nds (Germany), a male given name, equivalent to English Paul
as a wordkaikki.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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1955 | 4 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1962 | 14 |
| 1963 | 10 |
| 1964 | 11 |
| 1965 | 18 |
| 1966 | 20 |
| 1967 | 19 |
| 1968 | 22 |
| 1969 | 22 |
| 1970 | 40 |
| 1971 | 51 |
| 1972 | 45 |
| 1973 | 45 |
| 1974 | 62 |
| 1975 | 82 |
| 1976 | 101 |
| 1977 | 89 |
| 1978 | 96 |
| 1979 | 150 |
| 1980 | 139 |
| 1981 | 121 |
| 1982 | 132 |
| 1983 | 129 |
| 1984 | 132 |
| 1985 | 118 |
| 1986 | 103 |
| 1987 | 105 |
| 1988 | 80 |
| 1989 | 57 |
| 1990 | 63 |
| 1991 | 52 |
| 1992 | 49 |
| 1993 | 41 |
| 1994 | 18 |
| 1995 | 23 |
| 1996 | 17 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 4 |
| 2009 | 6 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 49 years between 1955–2009. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Paul I of Russiab. 1754RUnot in their usual nameThe ninth Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801 (1754-1801)
- Pavel Nakhimovb. 1802RUnot in their usual nameRussian fleet commander
- Pavel Milyukovb. 1859RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician and historian (1859-1943)
- Paval Sukhib. 1895RUnot in their usual nameSoviet aeroplanes designer
- Pavel Alexandrovb. 1896RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1896–1982)
- Pavel Cherenkovb. 1904RUnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist (1904-1990)
- Pavel Belyayevb. 1925RUnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut (1925-1970)
- Pavel Pogrebnyakb. 1983RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
- Pavel Durovb. 1984RUnot in their usual nametechnology entrepreneur (born 1984)
- Pasha Parfenib. 1986MDnot in their usual nameMoldovan singer (born 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 54 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 323 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pawel?
- We estimate roughly 3.9 million people bear Pawel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pawel have the most bearers?
- Pawel is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled павел.
- Where is Pawel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pawel is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 27 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Pawel compared with other names?
- In Russia, Pawel is the 34th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Pawel a male or female name?
- Pawel 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 Pawel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Paulus; dt., sorb., poln.
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About this data
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, “Pawel” — the 34th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.