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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Jewish (from Ukraine and Belarus) : habitational name for someone from any of the villages in Ukraine and Belarus called Pavlovka, from the eastern Slavic form of Paul.
  • Czech (Pavlovský) : from a possessive derivative of the personal name Pavel (see Paul), i.e. someone who is a member of Pavel’s household.

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