Pável
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/pabel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Pável is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. In Moldova it is the 92nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Paulus, probably through a late Common Slavic or Church Slavonic form, itself possibly coming through a Byzantine Greek intermediate (compare Russian Па́вел (Pável), Ukrainian Павло (Pavlo).
- CZCzechia1 in 27(measured from records)
- MDMoldova1 in 168
- SISlovenia1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27 (inferred from the name graph)
401,994 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pavel in MD Moldova, US United States, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Latin Paulus, probably through a late Common Slavic or Church Slavonic form, itself possibly coming through a Byzantine Greek intermediate (compare Russian Па́вел (Pável), Ukrainian Павло (Pavlo)).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Russian Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pável counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
401,994 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; e-services.md — living population register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SURS — resident population given names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ján Pávelb. 1842HUHungarian lepidopterologist, museologist and taxidermist (1842–1901)
- Ágoston Pávelb. 1886HUSlovene-Hungarian writer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pável mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Paulus, probably through a late Common Slavic or Church Slavonic form, itself possibly coming through a Byzantine Greek intermediate (compare Russian Па́вел (Pável), Ukrainian Павло (Pavlo)… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 5 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Pável?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /pabel/; in Portuguese /pabɛl/; in Hungarian /pavɛl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Pável a male or female name?
- Pável 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.
- In which country does Pável have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 402 thousand people named Pável, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pável most common?
- Pável is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pável?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 401,994 people named Pável, about 1 in 27 residents.
- How common is Pável compared with other names?
- In Moldova, Pável is the 92nd most common given name of 1,433 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pável?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A1velThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Pável” — the 92nd most common given name in Moldova. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.