Given name

Pāvels

Pāvels is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Latvian.

Original LatinPaulus

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Pāvels comes from Latin.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Latvian usage, Pāvels developed from Paulus.

Pāvels’s family of names

In Latvian usage, Pāvels shares a linguistic root with the English form Paul. In Latvian usage, Pāvels has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Paweł. In Latvian usage, Pāvels developed from the Latin form Paulus.

Walk Pāvels’s family in the name graph

PāvelsPavelsPâvelsPaulPaulusPaweł

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 2

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

Across languages 3

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

See also 3

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Sibling ideas

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