Given name & surname
Pavao
“small”
Pavao is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Original LatinPaulus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Pavao goes back to Latin Paulus, meaning “small.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Pavao developed from Paulus.
Pavao’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Pavao developed from the Latin form Paulus. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Pavao has a conventional equivalent in the English form Paul. In Croatian usage, Pavao has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Pavel.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Pavao has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Pavao comes from · 1 name
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pavao
- Pavao PervanAustrian association football playerborn 1987
- Pavao Ritter VitezovićCroatian writer, historian, linguist, cartographer and publisher (1652-1713)
- Pavao PavličićCroatian writerborn 1946
- Pavao ŽanićBishop of Mostar (1918–2000)
- Pavao ŠtoosCroatian poet and Catholic priest (1806-1862)
- Pavao RauchBan of Croatia (1865–1933)
- Pavao MiljavacCroatian soldier and politician (1953–2022)
- Pavao AnđelićBosnian and Yugoslav archaeologist and historian (1920–1985)
- Pavao PosilovićCroatian writer1597–1657
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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