Paulis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Paulis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Pauls (“Paul”).
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 53K
- ITItaly≈1 in 88K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
≈710 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Pauls (“Paul”).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paulis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | Paulis | 31 |
| US United States | 309 | 1 in 1.1M | 365 | Paulis | 135 |
| BE Belgium | 221 | 1 in 53K | 234 | Paulis | 12 |
| DE Germany | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 585K | — | Paulis | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | 111 | 1 in 156K | 111 | Paulis | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | 29 | 1 in 117K | 29 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 152K | listed | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Paulis is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of paulus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Albert Paulisb. 1875BEBelgian army officer
- Walter Paulisb. 1933NLDutch politician (1933-1998)
- Giulio Paulisb. 1947ITItalian essayist
- Ilse Paulisb. 1993NLDutch rower
- Bente Paulisb. 1997NLDutch rower
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 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 365 | #59,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 325 | #58,397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 309 | #64,388 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 234 | #7,531 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 221 | #7,666 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 111 | #17,477 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 29 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Paulis mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Pauls (“Paul”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Paulis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 713 people named Paulis in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paulis.
- Where is Paulis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paulis is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paulis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 309 people named Paulis in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paulisThe 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, “Paulis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.