Paulavičius
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plg. Patalaūskas (žr.)
Paulavičius is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 322K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Paulavicius in LT Lithuania, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 1 more.
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)
Plg. Patalaūskas (žr.)
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paulavičius 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #589 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Paulavicius | 24 |
| NO Norway | — | 17 | 1 in 322K | 17 | Paulavicius | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 29M | — | Paulavicius | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.4M | — | Paulavicius | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 2 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Andrius Paulavičiusb. 1972LTLithuanian actor
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 4 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Paulavičius mean, and where does it come from?
- Plg. Patalaūskas (žr.) Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- In which country does Paulavičius have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 171 people named Paulavičius in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paulavicius.
- How common is the name Paulavičius?
- In Norway, the national register counted 17 people named Paulavičius, about 1 in 322 thousand residents.
- How common is Paulavičius compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Paulavičius is the 589th most common surname of 43,479 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paulavi%C4%8DiusThe 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, “Paulavičius” — the 589th most common surname in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.