Paulos
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈpaʊˌɫoʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paulos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Germany it is the 87th most common surname.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.1Kas Pohl
- USUnited States1 in 4.3Kas Paul
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 Paulos 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
78,256 named Paul, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pohl in US United States, DE Germany, ES Spain and 1 more, Paul in IN India, Pavlos in BE Belgium and ጳውሎስ in ET Ethiopia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paulos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 78,256as Paul | 1 in 4.3K | 906K | Pohl | 334 |
| DE Germany | #87 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Pohl | 210 |
| IN India | — | 21,842as Paul | 1 in 61K | 22K | Paul | 18 |
| ET Ethiopia | #521 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | ጳውሎስ | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,519as Pol | 1 in 20K | 24K | Pohl | 20 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2,066as Paul | 1 in 363 | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,902as Paulus | 1 in 6.2K | 1.9K | Pavlos | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 797as Paul | 1 in 11K | 797 | Pohl | 35 |
78,256 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling paul. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Paulos 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 Latin, accusative masculine plural of paulus
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)
- Peregrino Paulosb. 1889ARArgentinian musician of Spanish and Danish parentage
- John Allen Paulosb. 1945USAmerican mathematician
- Eric Paulosb. 1969USAmerican artist and computer scientist
- Santiago Paulósb. 1983UYUruguayan painter
- Nicholas Paulosb. 1992USAmerican basketball player
- Christina Syversen Paulosb. 1997NONorwegian association football player
- Victoria Løkken Paulosb. 1997NONorwegian association football player
- Lucas Paulosb. 1998ARArgentine rugby union footballer
- Kátia PaulosPTPortuguese researcher in Animal Science and Dairy Science
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)
Attested in 46 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,786 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 867 | #27,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 808 | #27,945 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 366 | #10,280 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 366 | #10,262 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 96 | #11,432 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 74 | #3,618 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 39 | #52,136 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Paulos?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpaʊˌɫoʊz/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Paulos?
- In the etymology graph, Pal, Paulus and Pauli are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Paulos have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 78 thousand people named Paul, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Paulos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 78,256 people named Paul in 2010, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Paulos compared with other names?
- In Germany, Paulos is the 87th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paulos?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paulosThe 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, “Paulos” — the 87th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.