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Around the world, Palush (Paulus , Palush ) is a common masculine given name. The forename Palush is characteristic of Namibia, where it is a common primarily male, but very seldom girly name, Indonesia, where it is quite a common masculine name, and South Africa. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in Indonesia, India, and South Africa. Likewise, Palush is the last name as well as the forename.
Palush is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Paul the Apostle , the Early Christian apostle and missionary (c. AD 5 – c. 64/65); Pavel Chekov , the fictional character, Star Trek: The Original Series; Paulus Atreides , the fictional character from Dune universe; Pavel Korchagin , the fictional character from ''How the Steel Was Tempered'', Pavel Korchagin and Pavel Afanasyevich Famusov , character in Woe from Wit, among other works.