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Given name & surname · Bulgarian · Macedonian · Russian

Пол

“small”

Пол (Pol) is a masculine given name. It is used in Russian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian.

Bulgarian and Macedonian and RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Paul.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Пол goes back to English Paul, meaning “small.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Пол comes from English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From English Paul.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Пол’s family of names

In Russian usage, Пол has a conventional equivalent in the English form Paul. In Ukrainian usage, Пол has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Pavel. In Russian usage, Пол has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Paolo.

Walk Пол’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Пол has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its English roots to each of them.

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Englishwhere Пол comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Dots on the border stand for languages further away. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 4

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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