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Pavlos

Boys' name

Form of Paul

Pavlos has been given to 132 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Pavlos, 2020

1 in 557,000

Pavlos over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pavlos: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Paul

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pavlos means

Pavlos is a form of Paul.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pavlos is used in Greek.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpav.los/ for Pavlos.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pavlos → Paul. The family’s meaning is “small”, recorded in English with the source elements paulus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Paul.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 132 boys were recorded with the name Pavlos between 1970 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2008; its best national rank was #5,249 in 1970.

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 Pavlos?

Pavlos had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pavlos 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pavlos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pavloss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pavlos was born before 2008 — so the typical Pavlos is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
132
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (44).

Is Pavlos 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (9)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,249
1970

Spellings of Pavlos

Pavlos is not the most common spelling — Carlos is, with 83.4% against Pavlos's 0.04%.

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.

Pavlos around the world

Where Pavlos 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1950–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pavlos by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,249
1970
Peak year
2008
9 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
132
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pavlos

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

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Sibling names for Pavlos

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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