Given name & surname
Pavlo
“small”·“a small or humble man”
Pavlo is a variant of Paul. Interpretations include “small” and “a small or humble man” (Latin). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Pavlo is a variant of Paul. Interpretations include “small” and “a small or humble man” (Latin). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Pavlo is a variant of Paul. An origin associated with Paul is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pavlo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 49
- 49 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,656 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,656 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,325 as a first name in 2020; 219 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pavlo’s family of names
Pavlo shares a linguistic root with Paul. In Ukrainian usage, Pavlo is a transliteration of Павло. Pavlo has a related form in Paul.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 27
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Pabloequivalent
- Pauloequivalent
- Paoloequivalent
- Pavelequivalent
- Pauequivalent
- Paulinoequivalent
- Pavleequivalent
- Paulosequivalent
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People named Pavlo
- Pavlo SkoropadskyUkrainian general (1873-1945)
- Pavel PopovichSoviet cosmonaut (1930–2009)
- Pavlo TychynaSoviet Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman (1891-1967)
- Pavlo LazarenkoUkrainian politician, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, criminalborn 1953
- Pavel EljanovUkrainian chess playerborn 1983
- Pavel RybalkoSoviet military commander (1894-1948)
- Pavlo KlimkinUkrainian diplomat and politicianborn 1967
- Pavlo LeeUkrainian actor (1998-2022)1988–2022
- Pavlo ChubynskyiUkrainian writer (1839–1884)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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