Pavlou
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɑʋləʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pavlou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cyprus than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common surname.
- GRGreece≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 91K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 182K
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.
- Cyprus (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈540 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, 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 Παυλου in GR Greece.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pavlou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CY Cyprus | #40 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Pavlou | 60 |
| GR Greece | #976 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 22 | Παυλου | 69 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 182K | 776 | Pavlou | 102 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Pavlou | 82 |
| US United States | — | 232 | 1 in 1.4M | 261 | Pavlou | 139 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 414K | — | Pavlou | 3 |
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
- Pavlos Pavloub. 1930CYCypriot politician
- Patrikios Pavloub. 1939CYCypriot politician
- Chris Pavloub. 1939Australian rules footballer
- Chris Pavloub. 1945GBbanker
- Maria Pavloub. 1979CYCypriot author
- Kyriacos Pavloub. 1986CYCypriot footballer
- Drew Pavloub. 1999AUAustralian activist
- Dimitra Pavloub. 2004GRGreek tennis player
- Stavros Pavlouresearcher
- Socrates Pavloupolitician
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 776 | #8,116 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 261 | #78,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 232 | #81,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 188 | #91,004 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Pavlou?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑʋləʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pavlou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 536 people named Pavlou in Cyprus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pavlou.
- How common is the name Pavlou?
- In the United States, the national register counted 232 people named Pavlou in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Pavlou compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Pavlou is the 40th most common surname of 24,832 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pavlouThe 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, “Pavlou” — the 40th most common surname in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.