Paul
Paul is a German , English , French , Romanian and Dutch First and last name, the origin of the Latin , male first name Paul is.
For the feminine form of the first name, see Paula .
Origin and meaning
Paul as a form of Paul is of Latin origin and means "small" or "little". The name means "the little one", "the little one", also "the boy (younger)", like the Latin addition minor . The Greek form Παῦλος Pavlos also goes back to the Latin name.
distribution
The first name Paul was often among the ten most frequently given boy names in Germany in the last years of the 19th century. Its popularity then declined gradually, from the early 1940s onwards. The trend reversed in the mid-1970s: the name quickly became popular again. Since the turn of the millennium, he has been one of the ten most popular first names in Germany several times.
name day
There are several name days for Paul :
- January 10th - St. Paul of Thebes (3rd / 4th century), Egyptian hermit
- January 25th (feast day Pauli Conversion )
- February 6 (Paul Miki and companions) - St. Paul Miki , Japanese パ ウ ロ 三 木, Pauro Miki (around 1565–1597), Japanese missionary, Jesuit and martyr
- April 16
- June 13th
- June 26th (John and Paul) - Saint Paul of Rome (4th century), martyr
- June 29 (Peter and Paul) - St. Paul of Tarsus (1st century), Apostle
- October 19 - St. Paul of the Cross (1694–1775), founder of the order
variants
- Faulus: Aramaic
- Paale: Frisian
- Paavo : Finnish
- Pablo : Spanish
- Palle: Danish
- Pál : Hungarian
- Pål: Norwegian
- Páll : Icelandic
- Pals: West Frisian
- Paole , Paoli (only as surname)
- Paolo : Italian
- Pasha (Паша) : Russian
- Pashka (Пашка) : Russian
- Pau : Catalan
- Pauel: Danish
- Paul: German , English , French , Romanian , Dutch
- Paulë, Pal: Albanian
- Pauli : Finnish
- Paulin: French
- Paulino : Spanish , Portuguese
- Paulinho , Paulo: Portuguese
- Paulinus : Latin
- Paulen , Paulke (only as surname)
- Pauls: Latvian
- Paul : Latin , Dutch
- Pavel (Павел) : Russian , Czech , Bulgarian
- Pavle : Serbian , Macedonian
- Pavlo (Павло) : Ukrainian
- Pavlos (Παύλος) : Greek
- Pavlu
- Pavo, Pavao : Croatian
- Pavol: Slovak
- Pavel : Russian
- Paweł: Polish
- Pavlo (Павло) : Ukrainian
- Pawoł : Sorbian
- Pay: North Frisian
- Pol : Luxembourgish , Catalan , Romansh
- Pole: Low German
- Pouel: Danish
- Poul : Danish
- Povel : Danish
- Povilas, Paulauskas (only as a surname): Lithuanian
- Povl: Danish
Frequent double names and name combinations:
Name bearer
Called name Paul or Paul
Please refer:
Popes
- Paul I (757-767)
- Paul II (1464-1471)
- Paul III (1534-1549)
- Paul IV (1555-1559)
- Paul V (1605-1621)
- Paul VI (1963–1978)
Patriarchs
- Paul I (337-339), (341-342), (346-351), Patriarch of Constantinople
- Paul II (641–653), Patriarch of Constantinople
- Paul III (687–693), Patriarch of Constantinople
- Paul IV (780–784), Patriarch of Constantinople
- Paul (1990–2009), Patriarch of the Serbs
Bishops
- Paul of Samosata (3rd century) from 260 to 268 bishop of Antioch; excommunicated as a heretic
- Paul of Antioch / Sidon († 13th century), Melkite bishop in Sidon
- Paul von Jägerndorf († 1377), from 1352 to 1359 Bishop of Gurk and from 1359 to 1377 Prince-Bishop of Freising
- Pavel of Kolomna († 1656), from Bishop of Kolomna
- Paulus de Santa Maria , P. of Burgos, Solomon ha-Levi (1352–1435), rabbi, later Archbishop of Burgos
Ruler
- Paul (1901–1964), King of Greece (1947–1964)
- Paul I. (Pawel I.) Pawel Petrowitsch von Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia (1796–1801)
- Paul I Prince Esterházy (1635–1713), Prince in Burgenland
- Paulus I. Zeller († 1563), Abbot of Ebrach Monastery
- Paulus II. Baumann (1644–1725), abbot of Ebrach Monastery
Other
- Paulus Catena (4th century), notary at the court of Emperor Constantius II.
- Paulus (Comes) (5th century), late Roman officer (or ruler) in Northern Gaul
- Paul of Callinicus (520)
- Paulus Silentiarius († before 581), Byzantine poet
- Paulus (Exarch) Eastern Roman Patricius, Strategus of Sicily and Exarch of Ravenna until 726/727
- Paulus deacon (720–797), monk and historian
- Paulus Venetus , Paolo Nicoletti da Udine (1369 / 72–1429), Italian philosopher and theologian
Second and last name
- Iulius Paulus (around 200), Roman jurist and Praetorian prefect
family name
Fictional characters
- Paul Atreides , main character in the science fiction novel Dune - The Desert Planet by Frank Herbert
- Paul Bäumer, main character in the anti-war novel In the West, nothing new by Erich Maria Remarque
- Paul Temple , fictional private investigator and detective writer for the British author Francis Durbridge
- Paul Neugebauer, role of Ludwig Manfred Lommel in the Runxendorf radio broadcasts
- Paul, alien in the science fiction comedy Paul - An Alien on the Run
- Uncle Paul , cartoon character
- Pole Poppenspäler , title character of the novel by Theodor Storm
Animals
- Paul (Octopus) (2008–2010), oracle animal for predicting game results in soccer tournaments