Pavel

#3,181 for boys in 2025, 37 births

Peak · boys
2008 · 83 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,544
since 1971

Pavel over time

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Rank among boys' names. Pavel has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202012peak #1,792, 2008boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#3,18137
2024#3,27236
2023#3,56632
2022#3,61731
2021#4,11825
2020#3,81127
2019#3,25935
2018#2,94340
2017#2,89141
2016#2,93540
2015#3,29934
2014#2,54248
2013#2,62345
2012#2,35854
2011#2,74843
2010#2,57947
2009#1,97571
2008#1,79283
2007#1,91274
2006#2,10262
2005#2,08159
2004#1,93463
2003#2,10253
2002#2,29545
2001#2,38641
2000#2,08748
1999#2,26340
1998#2,34937
1997#3,06424
1996#2,33234
1995#2,44431
1994#2,44431
1993#2,86524
1992#3,10521
1991#5,5219
1990#4,99310
1989#5,6158
1988#4,45010
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First appearance
1971

The first year at least five boys were named Pavel! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1973–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Pavel
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 91 spots since 2024 (#3,272#3,181)
  • 630 spots since 2020 (#3,811#3,181)
  • 118 spots since 2015 (#3,299#3,181)
Rise & fade · boys
37 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1971
  • Peaked 2008 at #1,792 (83 births)
  • Births halved by 2015, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 24,580
  • Highest: 1 in 24,580 boys born in 2008 were named Pavel (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 46,164 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 38.8% of all boys named Pavel (599) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s28#4,441 (1972)#5,121
1980s41#4,450 (1988)#5,504
1990s261#2,263 (1999)#3,138
2000s599#1,792 (2008)#2,067
2010s427#2,358 (2012)#2,818
2020s188#3,181 (2025)#3,594

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Pavel in 2012

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#2,358
54 births · 1 in 35,129 boys

Top boys' names in 2012

  1. #1Jacob19,110
  2. #2Mason18,994
  3. #3Ethan17,697
  4. #4Noah17,385
  5. #5William16,917
  6. #6Liam16,824
  7. #7Michael16,211
  8. #8Jayden16,152
  9. #9Alexander15,259
  10. #10Aiden14,924
  11. #2,358Pavel54
More about 2012

boys

1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 35,129 of them was named Pavel, which outranked 83.5% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Pavel
  1. #2,326Tavon55
  2. #2,326Tyshaun55
  3. #2,326Zymir55
  4. #2,358Pavel54
  5. #2,358Armand54
  6. #2,358Aziz54
  7. #2,358Beaux54
  8. #2,380Abiel53
  9. #2,380Aharon53
  10. #2,380Amaree53

Tied with 21 names at #2,358; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2011
Risers
  1. 1,237Jionni#2,105#868
  2. 551Foster#1,544#993
  3. 504Major#990#486
  4. 433Kase#1,395#962
  5. 428Jael#1,411#983
Fallers
  1. 241Jerimiah#889#1,130
  2. 235Lathan#932#1,167
  3. 229Jorden#676#905
  4. 209Kyron#886#1,095
  5. 207Jakobe#928#1,135

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2012