Pâül
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pâül is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Czechia it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English Paul, from Latin Paulus, paulus (“small”).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 110(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 139
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 147
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pâül itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #29 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 691 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 110 (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Paul in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NZ New Zealand and 1 more, Павел in RU Russia, CN China, Paulo in BR Brazil and Pavel in CZ Czechia.
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)
- EnglishPaul(measured from records)
- LatinPaulus“small”(measured from records)
From English Paul, from Latin Paulus, paulus (“small”).
Sources 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pâül 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈6,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 231 | — | Павел | 111 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,331,639as Paulo | 1 in 159 | 1.4M | Paulo | 282 |
| RU Russia | #34 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 132 | #16 | Павел | 283 |
| US United States | #22 | 907,225 | 1 in 367 | 906K | Paul | 691 |
| GB United Kingdom | #8 | ≈600,000 est. | ≈1 in 110 | 70K | Paul | 482 |
| CZ Czechia | #6 | 401,994as Pavel | 1 in 27 | 402K | Pavel | 222 |
| IE Ireland | #8 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 139 | — | Paul | 231 |
| NZ New Zealand | #10 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 147 | — | Paul | 226 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pâül mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Paul, from Latin Paulus, paulus (“small”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 8 other sources.
- Is Pâül a male or female name?
- Pâül 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 Pâül have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 million people named Pâül in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled павел.
- How common is the name Pâül?
- In the United States, the national register counted 907,225 people named Pâül in 2020, about 1 in 367 residents.
- How common is Pâül compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Pâül is the 6th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A2%C3%BClThe 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, “Pâül” — the 6th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.