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Worldwide, פאולוס (Paulus , Paullus , פאולוס ) is a common boy's first name. The given name פאולוס is characteristic of Namibia, where it is a common principally boy's, but scarcely feminine name, Indonesia, where it is quite a common boy's name, and South Africa. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Indonesia, India, and South Africa. Also, פאולוס is the last name as well as the forename.
פאולוס 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.