Given name
Paweł
“small”
Paweł is a masculine given name from Czech. It is used in Polish.
Original CzechPavel
Meaning & origin
Paweł’s family of names
In Polish usage, Paweł has a diminutive in Pawełek. In Polish usage, Paweł has a later derivative in Paveł. In Polish usage, Paweł has a conventional equivalent in the English form Paul.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Paweł has relatives in 32 languages. Lines run from its Czech roots to each of them.
Czechwhere Paweł comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 48
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- PavelCzech, French
- PaulEnglish, German
- PabloSpanish
- Paulinahas masculine form
- PauloPortuguese, ia
- PaoloItalian
- PauCatalan
- Paulinoequivalent
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- Pavloequivalent
- Pavleequivalent
- Paulosequivalent
- Pawelborrowing · Low German
- Pavlosequivalent
- PaulusLatin
- PoulDanish
- Pålequivalent
- Povilasequivalent
- Pálequivalent
- Boghosequivalent
- Paavoequivalent
- 保羅Chinese
- Pavełderivative · Ukrainian
- Павлоequivalent
- Պողոսequivalent
- Pioelwym
- Piöelwym
- Paułwym
- Puölwym
- Павло́Ukrainian
- PòlScottish Gaelic
- Παῦλοςgr
- PavolSlovak
- ПавлеSerbian
- ПавелRussian
- ΠαύλοςGreek
- PāvilsLatvian
- PāvelsLatvian
- PaulsLatvian
- PaulisLatvian
- PállIcelandic
- პავლეGeorgian
- PaaluGreenlandic
- PawołUpper Sorbian
- 𐍀𐌰𐍅𐌻𐌿𐍃Gothic
- PaŭloEsperanto
- PovlDanish
- PavaoCroatian
- ПавалBelarusian
People named Paweł
- Paweł AdamowiczMayor of Gdańsk (1998-2019)1965–2019
- Paweł PawlikowskiPolish film director and screenwriterborn 1957
- Paweł BrożekPolish association football playerborn 1983
- Paweł FajdekPolish hammer throwerborn 1989
- Paweł DawidowiczPolish association football playerborn 1995
- Paweł WojciechowskiPolish pole vaulterborn 1989
- Paweł WszołekPolish association football playerborn 1992
- Paweł JanasPolish footballer and managerborn 1953
- Paweł MąciwodaPolish bassistborn 1967
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