Paul Name Meaning, Origin, Celebrities, Graphic Designs

Name: Paul

Origin: English, Latin, Hebrew

Paul name meaning 🔗

Paul is a common Latin masculine given name in countries and ethnicities with a Christian heritage (Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism) and, beyond Europe, in Christian religious communities throughout the world. Paul – or its variations – can be a given name or surname.

The name has existed since Roman times. It derives from the Roman family name Paulus or Paullus, from the Latin adjective meaning “small”, “humble”, “least” or “little”. During the Classical Age it was used to distinguish the minor of two people of the same family bearing the same name. The Roman patrician family of the Gens Aemilia included such prominent persons as Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, Tertia Aemilia Paulla (the wife of Scipio Africanus), and Sergius Paulus.

Its prevalence in nations with a Christian heritage is primarily due to its attachment to Saint Paul the Apostle, whose Greek name was Παῦλος, Paûlos, a transliteration from the Latin, also carrying the “modest” meaning of this name, and chosen because of its similarity to his Jewish name Šaul. The name Paul is common, with variations, in all European languages.

So, Paul means modest or humble.

Variants, Translations, and Transliterations 🔗

• Albanian: Pal
• Amharic: ጳውሎስ (P’awlos)
• Latin: Paulus, Paulinus
• Arabic: بولس (Bulus, in the Bible)
• Aragonese: Pavlo
• Armenian Old: Պաւղոս (Pawłos)
• Armenian Western: Պօղոս (Boġos)
• Armenian Eastern: Պողոս (Poġos)
• Assamese: Pabloo
• Asturian: Pablu
• Basque: Paulo
• Belarusian: Павeл (Pavel), Паўлюк (Paŭluk), Паўлюсь (Paŭluś), Пол (Pol)
• Bengali: পল (Pol)
• Biblical Greek: Paulos or Pavlos
• Biblical Latin: Paulus
• Bosnian: Pavao, Pavão, Pavle
• Breton: Paol
• Bulgarian: Павел (Pavel)
• Catalan: Pau, Pol
• Chinese: 保羅, 保罗 (Bǎoluó), 保祿 (Bǎolù)
• Coptic: ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ (Paulos), ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲉ (Paule), ⲡⲁⲩ (Pau)
• Cornish: Pawl
• Corsican: Paulu
• Croatian: Pavao, Pavle, Pavo
• Czech: Pavel
• Danish: Poul, Povl, Palle
• Dutch: Paul, Paulus, Pauwel
• Esperanto: Paŭlo, Paĉjo
• Estonian: Paul, Paavel, Paavo
• Faroese: Páll, Pál, Palli, Pól, Pauli
• Fijian: Paula
• Finnish: Paavali, Paavo, Pauli
• French: Paul, Pol, Paulin
• Frisian: Pouw, Powles, Paulus
• Galician: Paulo
• Georgian: პავლე (Pavle)
• German: Paul
• Greek: Παύλος (Pávlos, Páv̱los)
• Gujarati: પોલ (Pōl)
• Haitian Creole: Pòl
• Hakka: Pó-lò
• Hausa: Bulus
• Hawaiian: Paulo
• Hebrew: פאולוס‎ (Paulus – only used in Biblical context)), פול‎ (Pol)
• Hindi: पौलुस (pəulus, पौल (pɔl)
• Hungarian: Pál (Nicknames: Pali, Palika, Paja, Pajus, Pajó, Palcsi, Palcsika, Pálka, Palkó, Pálocska)
• Icelandic: Páll
• Indonesian: Paulus, Paul, Paula, Paulo, Paulinus
• Irish: Pól, Pódhl
• Italian: Paolo, Paolino
• Japanese: ポール (Pōru), and in Biblical context, パウロ (Pauro)
• Kannada: ಪಾಲ್ (Pāl)
• Karelian: Puavil, Puavila
• Korean: 파울로스 (Paulloseu) or 폴 (Pol)
• Catholic: 바오로 (Baoro)
• Eastern Orthodox: 바울로 (Baullo)
• Protestant: 바울 (Baul), 바우로 (Baulo, Anglican)
• Latin: Paulus
• Latvian: Pauls, Pāvils
• Lithuanian: Paulas, Paulius, Povilas
• Luganda: Paolo
• Malayalam: പൗലോസ് (Paulose)
• Macedonian: Павле (Pavle, Pavel)
• Maltese: Pawl, Pawlu
• Manx: Payl
• Māori: Paora
• Marathi: पौलुस (pəulus – only used in Biblical context), पॉल (pɔl), पाव्लो (paʋlo), पाब्लो (pablo)
• Mongolian: Павел (Pavel), Паул
• Na’vi: Pawl
• Nepali: पावलले (Pāvalalē)
• Norwegian: Paul, Pål
• Occitan: Pau
• Old English: Paulus
• Philippine languages: Pablo or Paulo
• Polish: Paweł
• Portuguese: Paulo, Paulino, Paulinho, Pavão (archaic)
• Punjabi: ਪੌਲੁਸਨੇ (Paulusanē)
• Romanian: Paul, Pavel
• Russian: Павел (Pavel), Поль (Pol)
• Sardinian: Paulu
• Scottish Gaelic: Pòl, Pàl
• Serbian: Павле (Pavle)
• Shona: Paurosi
• Sicilian: Pàulu, Paulu
• Sinhala: පාවුලු (Pawulu)
• Slovak: Pavol
• Slovene: Pavel
• Spanish: Pablo, Paulino, Paulo, Polo
• Swedish: Paul, Pål
• Syriac: Pawlos, Pola ܦܵܘܠܘܿܣ, ܦܵܘܠܲܐ
• Tamil: பவுல் (Pavul)
• Telugu: పౌలు (Pāulu)
• Thai: พอล (Paul)
• Turkish: Pavlus, Pavlos
• Ukrainian: Павло (Pavlo)
• Urdu: پال
• Venetian: Pagolo, Polo
• Vietnamese: Phao-lô
• Welsh: Pawl

The feminine versions are Paula, Pauline, Paulina, and Paulette.

People named Paul 🔗

• Paul the Apostle (c. 5–c. 64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer
• Paul (jurist), also called Julius Paulus, praetorian prefect
• Paul (Nestorian patriarch), briefly Patriarch of the Church of the East in 539
• Paul (bishop of Mérida), the metropolitan bishop of Mérida in the mid sixth century (fl. 540s/550s)
• Paul (father of Maurice) (died 593), father of Byzantine Emperor. Maurice and head of the Byzantine Senate
• Paul of Aegina (625–690), Greek surgeon
• Paul (exarch), Exarch of Ravenna from 723 to 727
• Paul the Deacon (c. 720–c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk
• Paul of Latrus (died c. 956), Greek hermit
• Paul, son of Peter, voivode of Transylvania between 1221 and 1222
• Paul, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (died 1371)
• Paul (Meletiev) (1880–1962), Catholic bishop
• Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece
• Paul (Ponomaryov) (born 1952), emeritus Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus and leader of the Belarusian Orthodox Church

Graphic designs for Paul 🔗

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