Pavél
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pavél is a 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).
- ESSpain1 in 25K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 38K
- CZCzechia1 in 27
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27 (inferred from the name graph)
401,994 people
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)).
Sources 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 34 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pavél 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pavél 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.
- Is Pavél a male or female name?
- Pavél 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 Pavél have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 402 thousand people named Pavél, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pavél most common?
- Pavél is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pavél?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 401,994 people named Pavél, about 1 in 27 residents.
- How common is Pavél compared with other names?
- In Moldova, Pavél is the 92nd most common given name of 1,433 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pav%C3%A9lThe 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, “Pavél” — the 92nd most common given name in Moldova. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.