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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Little one

Boy name variations

Paul

Paul

- 4% this year
Masculine
Common
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Pawl

Pawl

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Pablo

Pablo

0 % this year
Masculine
Uncommon
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Paolo

Paolo

+ 9% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Pauly

Pauly

- 17% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Pauley

Pauley

0 % this year
Masculine
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Pawley

Pawley

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Pavel

Pavel

+ 24% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Paulin

Paulin

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Pavlo

Pavlo

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Paulo

Paulo

+ 6% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Paulus

Paulus

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Powell

Powell

+ 20% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Pal

Pal

- 17% this year
Masculine
Rare
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How Popular Is The Name Pol

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan and Occitan : from the personal name Pol, equivalent to Paul.
  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a grassy mound, from Middle Dutch pol ‘tussock’.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Pohl.
  • Polish : ethnic name or regional name meaning ‘Pole’ (see Polak).
  • Polish : from a shortened or reduced form of any of several personal name containing the syllable -pol-, e.g. Polikarp, Hipolit, or Leopold.

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