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Pavle

#11,651 in 2025Boys' name

From Latin Paulus; literal meaning unconfirmed

Pavle has been given to 139 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #11,651 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Pavle, 2025

1 in 553,000

Pavle over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pavle: meaning, origin, and history

From Latin Paulus; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pavle means

Pavle is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Pavle is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pavle comes through Latin Paulus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 139 boys were recorded with the name Pavle between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2016; its best national rank was #6,251 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,327 in 2020 to #11,651 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,402 in 2015 to #11,651 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pavle?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,651
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pavle sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pavle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pavles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pavle was born before 2015 — so the typical Pavle is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
139
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Choose a decade

2010s — 57.6% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Pavle rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+327
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,324
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,249
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2016 (14)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,251
2017

Spellings of Pavle

Pavle is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 75.0% against Pavle's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pavle is used

Across 1910–2025, Pavle was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,706,895 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pavle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pavle around the world

Where Pavle ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • France
    2009–2024
    #5,520
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1996–2023
    #2,216
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1970–1984
    #455
    in 1984

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pavle by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,651
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,324
Best rank ever
#6,251
2017
Peak year
2016
14 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
139
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Pavle

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Pavle

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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