Paval
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries
Paval is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Paulus.
- ESSpain1 in 350K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
- SESweden1 in 2M
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Latin Paulus.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Paval is found
(measured from records)Paval 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.
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Paval is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Pavel.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Paval Zhaurydb. 1889RUBelarusian military commander (1889-1939)
- Pavał Sieviaryniecb. 1976BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian journalist, politician and author
- Pavel Pernikovb. 1992BYnot in their usual nameBelarus Wikipedian (1992-)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paval mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Paulus. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Paval?
- In the etymology graph, Pal, Paulus and Pauli are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Paval?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Paval in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paval. After it come Italy, Spain, United States and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Paval?
- In Spain, the national register counted 143 people named Paval, about 1 in 350 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Paval?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pavalThe 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, “Paval”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.