Given name · also Old Norse
Páll
Páll is a masculine given name from Old Norse, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Faroese and Icelandic.
Original LatinPaulus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Páll comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Icelandic usage, Páll developed from Paulus.
Páll’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Páll developed from the Latin form Paulus. In Faroese usage, Páll has a conventional equivalent in the English form Paul. In Icelandic usage, Páll has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Pavel.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Páll has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Páll comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 6
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 20
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Páll
- Paul OscarIcelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockeyborn 1970
- Páll á ReynatúgvuFaroese politician and footballerborn 1967
- Páll KlettskarðFaroese footballerborn 1990
- Páll ÍsólfssonIcelandic composer, organist, composer1893–1974
- Páll JónssonRoman Catholic bishop1155–1211
- Páll VangFaroe Islands politician1949–2023
- Páll GuðmundssonIcelandic artistborn 1959
- Páll ÓlafssonIcelandic poet1827–1905
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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