Pavie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Pavia (a province of Lombardy, Italy)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pavi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pavie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain≈1 in 1.5M
- BRBrazil1 in 2.1M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pavia (a province of Lombardy, Italy)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pavie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 173 | Pavie | 173 |
| BR Brazil | 99 | 1 in 2.1M | 99 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | listed | Pavie | 16 |
| ES Spain | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Pavie | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 13 | Pavie | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 12 | 1 in 3.8M | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Pavie 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 French, Pavie, dans le Gers, est réputée pour ses pêches à peau duveteuse dont la chair adhère au noyau. Plusieurs étymologistes, dont Littré et Larousse, considèrent que l’origine est la ville italienne de Pavie.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
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)
- Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Pavieb. 1755FRFrench politician
- Louis Pavieb. 1782FRFrench writer (1782-1859)
- Victor Pavieb. 1808FRFrench printer (1808–1886)
- Théodore Pavieb. 1811FRFrench indologist (1811–1896)
- François Pavieb. 1843FRFrench politician (1843-1916)
- Auguste Pavieb. 1847FRFrench diplomat and explorer; active in French Indochina (1847-1925)
- André Pavieb. 1866FRFrench politician
- Ephraim Henry Pavieb. 1947FRFrench-Israeli Architect
- Olivier Pavieb. 1964FRFrench journalist
- Xavier Pavieb. 1973FRFrench philosopher
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 226 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 224 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 218 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 197 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 180 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 173 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 172 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 159 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 153 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 136 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 99 | #63,821 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 95 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Pavie mean, and where does it come from?
- Pavia (a province of Lombardy, Italy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pavie?
- A machine transcription gives /pavi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Pavie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Pavie in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pavie.
- How common is the name Pavie?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 99 people named Pavie, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pavieThe 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, “Pavie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.