Given name · Russian · Ukrainian
Павло
“small”
Павло (Pavló) is a masculine given name from Old Ruthenian, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Ukrainian.
Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Pavlo.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Павло goes back to Latin Paulus, meaning “small.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Павло comes from Old Ruthenian, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Павло developed from Paulus. In Ukrainian usage, Павло developed from Παῦλος.
Павло’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Павло shares a linguistic root with the Serbo-Croatian form Pavel. In Ukrainian usage, Павло has a transliteration in Pavlo. In Ukrainian usage, Павло has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Pavel.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Павло has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Павло comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 32
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Paulusroot · Latin
- Paulequivalent
- Pabloequivalent
- Pauloequivalent
- Paoloequivalent
- Pavelcognate · Slovene, Serbo-Croatian
- Pauequivalent
- Paulinoequivalent
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- Pavleequivalent
- Pavlosequivalent
- Pauliequivalent
- Paulosequivalent
- Pawelequivalent
- Poulequivalent
- Παύλοςequivalent
- Pállequivalent
- Pawełequivalent
- Պողոսequivalent
- Pålequivalent
- Павлеequivalent
- Povilasequivalent
- Pálequivalent
- Paolequivalent
- Pavolequivalent
- Boghosequivalent
- Paavoequivalent
- Павалequivalent
- Pavalequivalent
- Павелalso known as · Russian
- Павло́has masculine form
- Παῦλοςroot · Ancient Greek
- Павьлъroot · cu
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Павло
- Pavlo SkoropadskyUkrainian general (1873-1945)
- Pavel PopovichSoviet cosmonaut (1930–2009)
- Pavlo TychynaSoviet Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman (1891-1967)
- Pavlo LazarenkoUkrainian politician, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, criminalborn 1953
- Pavel EljanovUkrainian chess playerborn 1983
- Pavel RybalkoSoviet military commander (1894-1948)
- Pavlo KlimkinUkrainian diplomat and politicianborn 1967
- Pavlo LeeUkrainian actor (1998-2022)1988–2022
- Pavlo ChubynskyiUkrainian writer (1839–1884)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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