Paven
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/paβen/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Paven is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 103K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 429K
- DKDenmark1 in 489K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈420 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)Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Paven is found
(measured from records)Paven 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Paven | 10 |
| FR France | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 550K | 10 | — | — |
| IN India | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Paven | 14 |
| US United States | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.7M | listed | Paven | 52 |
| ES Spain | 33 | 1 in 1.5M | 33 | Paven | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 13 | 1 in 429K | 13 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Paven 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 Danish, definite singular of pave
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paven mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paven?
- In Spanish /paβen/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Paven?
- Mondonomo estimates about 418 people named Paven in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paven. After it come France, India, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Paven?
- In Spain, the national register counted 33 people named Paven, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Paven?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pavenThe 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, “Paven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.