Given name · also Slavic
Povilas
Povilas is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Lithuanian.
Original LatinPaulus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Povilas comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Lithuanian usage, Povilas developed from Paulus. In Lithuanian usage, Povilas developed from Παῦλος.
Povilas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Povilas has a diminutive in PACAS. In Lithuanian usage, Povilas developed from the Latin form Paulus. In Lithuanian usage, Povilas has a related form in PAULIUS.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Povilas has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Povilas comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 32
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Paulusroot · Latin
- Paulequivalent
- Pabloequivalent
- Pauloequivalent
- Paoloequivalent
- Pavelequivalent
- Pauequivalent
- Paulinoequivalent
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- Pavleequivalent
- Pavloequivalent
- Poulequivalent
- Pavlosequivalent
- Pauliequivalent
- Paulosequivalent
- Pawelequivalent
- Pāvilsequivalent
- Pálequivalent
- Павелequivalent
- Paolequivalent
- Pavolequivalent
- Boghosequivalent
- Paavoequivalent
- Павалequivalent
- Pavalequivalent
- Павлоequivalent
- Պողոսequivalent
- Pawełequivalent
- Pålequivalent
- Павлеequivalent
- Póvilashas masculine form
- Παῦλοςroot · Ancient Greek
- Павьлъsource · cu
People named Povilas
- Povilas VanagasLithuanian ice dancerborn 1970
- Povilas PlechavičiusGeneral of the Lithuanian Army (1890–1973)
- Povilas LukšysLithuanian footballerborn 1979
- Povilas JegorovasLithuanian Esperantistborn 1955
- Povilas VišinskisLithuanian politician (1875-1906)
- Povilas LeimonasLithuanian footballerborn 1987
- Povilas MykolaitisLithuanian long jumperborn 1983
- Povilas TautvaišasLithuanian-American chess player1916–1980
- Povilas BabarskasLithuanian handball playerborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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