Pawel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pawel 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: Patronym zu Paulus; dt., sorb., poln.
- CZCzechia1 in 27as Pavel(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 110as Paul
- RURussia≈1 in 132as Павел
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 Pawel 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 27 (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000,000 named Paul, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, as Pavel
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)
Patronym zu Paulus; dt., sorb., poln. oder tschech. Ursprungs. 254 Träger.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pawel 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 | 907,225as Paul | 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pawel is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Pawel och Pavel är slaviska former av → Paul.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, from Paulus, Latin paulus 'small'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Russian, var of Pavel.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In nds (Germany), a male given name, equivalent to English Paul
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Paul I of Russiab. 1754RUThe ninth Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801 (1754-1801)
- Pavel Nakhimovb. 1802RUnot in their usual nameRussian fleet commander
- Pavel Milyukovb. 1859RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician and historian (1859-1943)
- Paval Sukhib. 1895RUnot in their usual nameSoviet aeroplanes designer
- Pavel Alexandrovb. 1896RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1896–1982)
- Pavel Cherenkovb. 1904RUnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist (1904-1990)
- Pavel Belyayevb. 1925RUnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut (1925-1970)
- Pavel Pogrebnyakb. 1983RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
- Pavel Durovb. 1984RUnot in their usual nametechnology entrepreneur (born 1984)
- Pasha Parfenib. 1986MDnot in their usual nameMoldovan singer (born 1986)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.9K | #4,696 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 42 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42 | #74,979 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 24 | #45,371 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 10 | #5,609 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 7 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2016 | 4 | #592 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2012 | 4 | #346 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #4,696 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2019 | — | #196 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2018 | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Pawel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Paulus; dt., sorb., poln.
- In which country does Pawel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 million people named Paul in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pawel most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Pawel itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 27 people named Pavel.
- Is Pawel a male or female name?
- Pawel 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.
- How common is the name Pawel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,331,639 people named Paulo in 2022, about 1 in 159 residents.
- How common is Pawel compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Pawel is the 6th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pawel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pawelThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pawel” — the 6th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.