Boy name origins & meanings Latin : Little one Boy name variations Paul Pol Pawl Pablo Paolo Pauly Pauley Pavel Paulin Pavlo Paulo Paulus Powell Pal Family name origins & meanings English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Pavilly in Seine-Maritime, which is named with the Gallo-Roman personal name Pavilius + the locative suffix -acum.English : from a pet form of Paul.Possibly an altered spelling of Pauli.