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Павел
“small”
Павел (Pável) is a masculine given name from Koine Greek, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Russian, Belarusian, and Bulgarian.
Belarusian and Bulgarian and RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Paul.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Павел goes back to Latin Paulus, meaning “small.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Павел comes from Koine Greek, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Russian usage, Павел developed from Paulus.
Павел’s family of names
In Bulgarian usage, Павел has a diminutive in Па́вка. In Russian usage, Павел developed from the Latin form Paulus. In Russian usage, Павел has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Paul.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Павел has relatives in 25 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Павел comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 41
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Paulusroot · Latin, Swedish
- PaulGerman, Swedish
- PabloSpanish
- Pauloequivalent
- Paoloequivalent
- PauCatalan
- Paulinoequivalent
- Pavloequivalent
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- PavleCroatian, Bosnian
- Poulequivalent
- Paulosequivalent
- Pawelequivalent
- Pavolequivalent
- Boghosequivalent
- Paavoequivalent
- Павалequivalent
- Pavalequivalent
- 保羅Chinese
- Павлаfeminine form · Russian
- PawełPolish
- Pállequivalent
- Павлеequivalent
- Povilasequivalent
- Pálequivalent
- Па́влаfeminine form
- Павлинаfeminine form
- Па́велhas masculine form
- PaavelEstonian
- PåvelSwedish
- PålSwedish
- Павӑлcv
- PavaoCroatian
- पॉलHindi
- Павлоalso known as · Ukrainian, Russian
- 帕维尔Chinese
- 帕維爾Chinese
- פולHebrew
- პავლეGeorgian
- ՊողոսArmenian
- ጳውሎስAmharic
- Παῦλοςroot · Ancient Greek
People named Павел
- Paul I of RussiaThe ninth Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801 (1754-1801)
- Pavel Durovtechnology entrepreneur (born 1984)
- Pavel CherenkovSoviet physicist (1904-1990)
- Pavel NakhimovRussian fleet commander1802–1855
- Pavel FlorenskyRussian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr (1882–1937)
- Pavel PogrebnyakRussian footballerborn 1983
- Pavel Jozef ŠafárikSlovak poet, linguist, literature historian, publicist, educator, publicist, translator, writer and science writer (1795–1861)
- Pavel MilyukovRussian politician and historian (1859-1943)
- Pavel BadeaRomanian association football playerborn 1967
Characters named Павел: Pavel Chekov (fictional character), Pavel Korchagin (''How the Steel Was Tempered'').
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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