Find out how popular the last name Pavel is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Pavel.

Pavel, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Pavel surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Pavel in America

Pavel is the 20648th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Pavel surname appeared 1,282 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Pavel.

We can also compare 2010 data for Pavel to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Pavel

The surname "PAVEL" originated in the Slavic regions of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages. It is derived from the Greek name "Paulos," which means "small" or "humble." The name likely came to the Slavic lands through the influence of the Byzantine Empire and the spread of Christianity.

The earliest recorded instances of the surname can be found in medieval records and chronicles from the regions of modern-day Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. In the 14th century, a nobleman named Pavel Vishnevetsky was mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle, one of the oldest East Slavic chronicles.

The name "PAVEL" was also common among the nobility and lower classes in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which included parts of modern-day Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania. In the 16th century, a Polish nobleman named Jan Pavel Zborowski was a prominent figure at the court of King Sigismund III Vasa.

In the 17th century, the name "PAVEL" appeared in various records and documents from the Russian Empire. One notable figure was Pavel Yaguzhinsky, a Russian diplomat and statesman who served under Tsar Peter the Great in the early 1700s.

As the Russian Empire expanded, the surname "PAVEL" spread to other Slavic regions, including parts of modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and the Balkans. In the 19th century, the Russian writer and poet Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov was a prominent figure in the literary circles of St. Petersburg.

Another notable bearer of the surname was Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov, a Russian historian, and political leader who played a significant role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the establishment of the Provisional Government.

Other historical figures with the surname "PAVEL" include Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov-Pecherskiy, a 19th-century Russian writer and ethnographer, and Pavel Tchelitchew, a Russian-born American surrealist painter who lived from 1898 to 1957.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Pavel

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Pavel.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Pavel was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Pavel has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Pavel was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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