Paúl
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a moor, a heath
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/paul/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paúl is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Czechia it is the 6th most common given name.
- 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 Paúl 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #29 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 691 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 110 (inferred from the name graph)
1,331,639 named Paulo, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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, NG Nigeria and 2 more, Павел in RU Russia, 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)a moor, a heath
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Paúl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1,331,639as Paulo | 1 in 159 | 1.4M | Paulo | 282 |
| RU Russia | #34 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 132 | register #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 |
| NG Nigeria | #50 | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 431 | — | Paul | 171 |
| 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 |
1,331,639 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Paúl Marggraffb. 1946ECEcuadorian sports shooter
- Paúl M. Velazcob. 1950PEmammalogist and paleontologist
- Paúl Vélezb. 1971ECEcuadorian association football coach
- Paúl Carrascob. 1971CNEcuadoran politician
- Paúl Plazab. 1988ECEcuadorian association football player
- Paúl Cetreb. 1991ECassociation football player
- Paúl Morenob. 1992VEVenezuelan student and paramedic
- Paul Roukchanactor
- Paúl GonzálesPEbotanist
- Juan Paúl PachecoECEcuadorian politician
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #35,081 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Paúl mean, and where does it come from?
- a moor, a heath Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paúl?
- A machine transcription gives /paul/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Paúl a male or female name?
- Paúl 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 Paúl have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 million people named Paulo, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Paúl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 907,225 people named Paúl in 2020, about 1 in 367 residents.
- How common is Paúl compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Paúl is the 6th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paúl?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pa%C3%BAlThe 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, “Paúl” — the 6th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.