Pavel

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Pavel: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Pavel: Recorded since 1958, with a gap of 10 years, it reached #348 in 1987, and it stood at #655 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
67years from first to last
#348highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Pavel's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#2097
2001	#3134
2003	#2189
2004	#2578
2005	#2174
2006	#2087
2007	#1885
2008	#2097
2009	#2318
2010	#1289
2011	#1688
2012	#1430
2013	#1462
2014	#1421
2015	#1511
2016	#1271
2017	#1923
2018	#1533
2019	#1439
2020	#1192
2021	#1782
2022	#1609
2023	#1309
2024	#1951

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 24 of the 56 years from 1958 to 2013.

In 2024: #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1951 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1958–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1958
First recorded at #476 among boys in Norway in 1958 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1958–2013
Highest recorded position: #348 among boys in Norway, in 1987 (recorded 1958–2013).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1951 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Pavel appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1958, and has registered 195 births with the name.

Pavel across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Pavel's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#476 (1958)	#348 (1987)	#513 (2013)	24 of 56	195 (1958–2013)	13 (1987)
England and Wales · Boys	#2097 (1999)	#1192 (2020)	#1951 (2024)	24 of 26	307 (1999–2024)	22 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#375 (2003)	#375 (2003)	#655 (2024)	10 of 22	40 (2003–2024)	7 (2009)

Pavel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Pavel in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	5	1 of 10	5
2000s	56	8 of 10	7
2010sbusiest	164	10 of 10	16
2020s	82	5 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Pavel appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1958 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #348 in Norway in 1987.

Pavel's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1309	20	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1609	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1782	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1192	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1439	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1923	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1271	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1511	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1421	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1462	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1688	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1289	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2318	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2097	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#513	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#570	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#533	5	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#412	9	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#497	7	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#589	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#477	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#351	13	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#348	13	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#479	8	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#424	10	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#473	8	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#391	11	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#421	10	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#606	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#413	10	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#362	12	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#401	10	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#381	11	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#442	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#630	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#444	8	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#486	6	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#476	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#616	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#429	7	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#375	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1958 and 2024, ranked in 46 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #348, first reached in 1987.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 22 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 45 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Valentin · #352, 51y
Constantin · #353, 47y
Walid · #353, 48y
Florian · #342, 44y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Ricardo · #349, 58y
Miroslav · #346, 48y
Dalia · #355, 51y
Naima · #340, 54y

Pavel was ranked #348 in Norway · Boys in 1987. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Pavel and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Pavel without appearing here.

Pavel moved ahead of

Brooke Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2318 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1289 and #4678.
Nils Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2318 and #1859 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1289 and #3332.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2578 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2087 and #4052.
Brent Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2318 and #1981 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1289 and #2941.

Moved ahead of Pavel

Kasper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2189 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #2578 and #1347.
Arlo Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2097 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #3134 and #1949.
Cillian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2578 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2174 and #1190.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1309 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1951 and #1132.

Moved the opposite way to Pavel

Kelly Compare
Between 2001 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Pavel went from #3134 to #1309 while Kelly went from #1467 to #3523.
Alfie Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pavel went from #375 to #655 while Alfie went from #305 to #49.
Arthur Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pavel went from #375 to #655 while Arthur went from #214 to #47.
Blake Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pavel went from #375 to #655 while Blake went from #245 to #119.

Moved the same way as Pavel

Aaron Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pavel went from #375 to #655 and Aaron from #13 to #79.
Adam Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pavel went from #375 to #655 and Adam from #3 to #25.
Alan Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pavel went from #375 to #655 and Alan from #71 to #240.
Andrew Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Pavel went from #375 to #655 and Andrew from #36 to #106.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1958 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #348 in Norway in 1987. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Pavel

Pavel at a glance

What stands out in Pavel's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Pavel across 3 official records

Pavel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What stands out in Pavel's record

Pavel across 3 official records

Pavel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Pavel appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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