Meaning & origin
What it means
Gaweł goes back to Latin Gallus, meaning “rooster.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Gaweł’s family of names
In Polish usage, Gaweł has a diminutive in Gawełek. In Polish usage, Gaweł has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Gallo. In Polish usage, Gaweł has a conventional equivalent in the Latin form GALLUS.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gaweł has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Gaweł 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 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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