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First name origin & meaning:

Latin: Little one

First name variations: Pawl, Pablo, Paolo, Pauly, Pauley, Pawley, Pavel, Paulin, Pavlo, Paulo, Paulus, Powell, Pál, Paul

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Catalan and Occitan: from the personal name Pol, equivalent to Paul.
  2. Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a grassy mound, from Middle Dutch pol ‘tussock’.
  3. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Pohl.
  4. Polish: ethnic name or regional name meaning ‘Pole’ (see Polak).
  5. Polish: from a shortened or reduced form of any of several personal name containing the syllable -pol-, e.g. Polikarp, Hipolit, or Leopold.