Paul (name) - Paul German

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Paul is a common 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.

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Origin and diffusion

The name has existed since Roman times. It derives from the Roman family name Paulus or Paullus, from the Latin adjective meaning "small" or "humble". 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 ??????, Paûlos, a transliteration from the Latin, also carrying the "modest" meaning of this name. The name Paul is common, with variations, in all European languages (e.g. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Greek, Russian, Georgian).

Paul's popularity has varied. In the United States, the 1990 census shows it ranked the 13th most common (male) name; however, Social Security Administration data shows popularity in the top 20 until 1968, with steadily declining use until its 2015 rank of 200th.

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

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Translations

• Albanian: Pali, Pavli, Pal
• Amharic: ???? (Paulos)
• Ancient Roman: Paulus, Paulinus
• Arabic: ???? (Bulus, in the Bible), ??? (Bol, English name Paul), Boulos
  • occasionally used as a slang term, used to indicate the equivalent of the English slang term "boss"
• Aragonese: Pavlo
• Armenian Western: ????? (B??os)
• Armenian Eastern: ????? (Po?os)
• Asturian: Pablu
• Basque: Paulo
• Belarusian: ???e? (Pawe?), ?????? (Pa?luk), ??????? (Pa?lu?), ??? (Pol)
• Bengali: ?? (P?l)
• Biblical Greek: Paulos
• Biblical Latin: Paulus
• Bosnian: Pavao, Pavle
• Breton: Paol
• Bulgarian: ????? (Pavel)
• Catalan: Pau, Pol
• Chinese: ??, ?? (B?oluó)
• Cornish: Pawl
• Corsican: Paulu
• Croatian: Pavao, Pavle, Pavo
• Czech: Pavel
• Danish: Poul, Povl, Palle
• Dutch: Paul, Paulus, Pauwel
• Esperanto: Pa?lo, Pa?jo
• Estonian: Paul, Paavel, Paavo
• Faroese: Páll, Pál, Palli, Pól, Pauli
• Fijian: Paula
• Finnish: Paavali, Paavo, Pauli
• French: Paul, Pol
• Frisian: Pouw, Powles, Paulus
• Galician: Paulo
• Georgian: ????? (Pavle)
• German: Paul
• Greek: ?????? (Pávlos, Páv?los)
• Gujarati: ??? (P?l)
• Haitian Creole: Pòl
• Hakka: Pó-lò
• Hausa: Bulus
• Hawaiian: Paulo
• Hebrew: ??? (Pol)
• Hindi: ????? (p?ulus - only used in Biblical context), ??? (p?l)
• Hungarian: Pál (Nicknames: Pali, Palika, Paja, Pajus, Pajó, Palcsi, Palcsika, Pálka, Palkó, Pálocska)
• Icelandic: Páll
• Indonesian: Paulus
• Irish: Pól, Pódhl
• Italian: Paolo, Paolino
• Japanese: ??? (P?ru), and in Biblical context, ???? (Paurusu)
• Kannada: ???? (P?l)
• Korean: ??, ??? (Baul, Baoro - archaic translation; only used in Biblical context), ?(Pol)
• Latin: Paulus
• Latvian: Pauls, P?vils
• Lithuanian: Paulas, Paulius, Povilas
• Luganda: Paolo
• Malayalam: ?????? (Paulose)
• Macedonian: ????? (Pavle, Pavel)
• Maltese: Pawl, Pawlu
• Manx: Payl
• Maori: Paora
• Marathi: ????? (p?ulus - only used in Biblical context), ??? (p?l), ?????? (pa?lo), ?????? (pablo)
• Mongolian: ????? (Pavel), ????
• Na'vi: Pawl
• Nepali: ?????? (P?valal?)
• Norwegian: Paul, Pål
• Occitan: Pau
• Old English: Paulus
• Philippine languages: Pablo or Paulo
• Polish: Pawe?
• Portuguese: Paulo, Paulino, Paulinho
• Punjabi: ??????? (Paulusan?)
• Romanian: Paul, Pavel
• Russian: ??? (Pol), ????? (Pavel), ???? (Pasha)
• Sardinian: Paulu
• Scottish Gaelic: Pòl, Pàl
• Serbian: ????? (Pavle)
• Shona: Paurosi
• Sicilian: Pàulu, Paulu
• Sinhala: ?????? (Pawulu)
• Slovak: Pavol
• Slovene: Pavel
• Spanish: Pablo, Paulino
• Swedish: Paul, Pål
• Tamil: ????? (Pavul)
• Telugu: ???? (P?l)
• Thai: ??? (Paul)
• Ukrainian: ????? (Pavlo), ??? (Pol)
• Urdu: ???
• Venetian: Pago?o, Po?o
• Vietnamese: Phao-lô
• Welsh: Pawl

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Notable examples

Below are Pauls who are notable in their fields. This is not a comprehensive list of articles on people named Paul; see instead All pages beginning with "Paul".

As a given name

• Paul, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (died 1371)
• Paul Allen (born 1953), co-founder of Microsoft
• Paul Thomas Anderson (born 1970), American film director and screenwriter
• Paul Anka (born 1941), Canadian singer and songwriter
• Paul Bettany (born 1971), English actor
• Paul D. Boyer (born 1918), American biochemist, Nobel prize winner
• Paul Breitner (born 1951), German international footballer
• Paul Brown (1908-1991), American football coach, team owner, and executive
• Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), French artist
• Paul Crutzen (born 1933), Dutch meteorologist, Nobel prize winner
• Paul Desmond (1924-1977), American jazz saxophonist and composer
• Paul Dirac (1902-1984), English physicist and Nobel-prize winner
• Paul Dukas (1865-1935), French composer
• Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933), Austrian-Dutch theoretical physicist
• Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), German physician and chemist
• Paul Erd?s (1913-1996), Hungarian mathematician
• Paul Gascoigne (born 1967), English footballer
• Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French painter
• Paul Giamatti (born 1967), American actor
• Paul Haarhuis (born 1966), Dutch tennis player
• Paul Hewson (born 1960), the birth name of Irish singer Bono of U2 fame
• Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), German composer
• Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934), German field marshal and statesman

Paul Hinnrichs (born 1979), Scottish polo champion and shepherd

• Paul Hogan (born 1939), Australian actor and comedian
• Paul Ince (born 1967), English international footballer
• Paul Janssen (1926-2003), Belgian pharmacologist, founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica
• Paul Kagame (born 1957), President of Rwanda
• Paul Keating (born 1944), former Australian Prime Minister
• Paul Klee (1879-1940), Swiss-German painter
• Paul Kruger (1825-1904), President of the South African Republic
• Paul Krugman (born 1953), Nobel Prize-winning American economist and writer
• Paul Levesque (born 1969), American professional wrestler better known as Triple H
• Paul McCartney (born 1942), English singer and musician; member of The Beatles
• Paul Morphy (1837-1884), American chess player
• Paul Newman (1925-2008), American actor and philanthropist
• Paul Nipkow (1860-1940), German inventor
• Paul Oakenfold (born 1963), English DJ and electronic musician
• Paul Otlet (1868-1944), Belgian author and peace activist, father of information science
• Paul Pierce (born 1977), American basketball player
• Paul Pogba (born 1993), French footballer
• Paul Poiret (1879--1944), French fashion designer
• Paul Reiser (born 1957), American comedian
• Paul Reubens (born 1952), American comedian (Pee-wee Hermans)
• Paul Reuter (1816-1899), German-born British news reporter, founder of Reuters News Agency
• Paul Revere (1735-1818), patriot of the American Revolution and silversmith
• Paul Robeson, American actor, singer and activist
• Paul Rodgers (born 1949), English musician/songwriter, singer in Free and Bad Company
• Paul Rudd (born 1969), American actor
• Paul Ryan (born 1970), American politician and current House Speaker
• Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize-winning American economist
• Paul Scholes (born 1974), England international footballer
• Paul Scofield, English actor
• Paul Sereno, paleontologist
• Paul Simon (born 1941), American musician
• Paul Smith, British fashion designer
• Paul Stastny (born 1985), Canadian-American ice hockey player
• Paul Van Himst (born 1943), Belgian footballer
• Paul van Ostaijen (1896-1928), Belgian poet and writer
• Paul Verhoeven (born 1938), Dutch film director
• Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), French poet
• Paul Volcker (born 1927), American economist
• Paul Walker (1973-2013), American actor
• Paul Weller (born 1958), English musician
• Paul Wesley, American actor
• Paul Whitehouse, Welsh comedian
• Paul Wight (born 1972), American professional wrestler known as Big Show
• Paul Wolfowitz (born 1983), American political scientist and diplomat
• RuPaul, American singer, actor, and drag queen

As a middle name

• Jean Paul (1763-1825), pen name of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, German Romantic writer
• John Paul Getty, Jr., British philanthropist
• John Paul Jones (1747-1792), Scottish-American naval commander during the American Revolutionary War
• John Paul Jones (1890-1970), American athlete and previous record holder in the mile run
• John Paul Jones (born 1946), English musician, best known as a member of Led Zeppelin
• Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter
• Vinnie Paul, drummer for American Metal band Pantera

As a surname

• Aaron Paul (born 1979), American actor
• Adrian Paul (born 1959), English actor
• Alexandra Paul (born 1963), American actress
• Alice Stokes Paul, American suffragist leader
• Art Paul, American graphic designer
• Billy Paul (1934-2016), American soul singer
• Bruno Paul, German architect, interior designer, and furniture designer
• Chris Paul (born 1985), American basketball player
• Christi Paul, news anchor for CNN Headline News
• David L. Paul (born 1940), American banker and real estate developer
• Ellis Paul (born 1965), American singer-songwriter and folk musician
• Henri Paul, driver of the car in which he, Princess Diana, and Dodi Fayed were killed
• Herieth Paul, Tanzanian-Canadian fashion model
• Jake Paul (born 1997), American actor and YouTube personality
• Jayson Paul (born 1984), American professional wrestler better known as JTG
• Jean Paul (born 1985), West Indian cricketer
• Les Paul (1915-2009), American guitarist
• Logan Paul (born 1995), American actor
• Mihai Paul (born 1982), Romanian basketball player
• Rand Paul (born 1963), American ophthalmologist and politician
• Richard Paul (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Richard Paul (actor) (1940-1998), American actor
  • Richard Joseph Paul (born 1962), American actor
• Ron Paul (born 1935), American physician and politician; father of Rand
• Tom Paul (1933-2015), English footballer
• Wolfgang Paul (1913-1993), German physicist and Nobel prize winner

De Paul

• Lynsey de Paul, English singer-songwriter
• Vincent de Paul (1581-1660), French Catholic saint

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