Pavle
Around 100 men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. A foreign spelling of Paweł, from the Greek for "small" and "humble".
Pavle Pronunciation
What Pavle means
Where Pavle comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pavle reaches Polish through a Greek root meaning small. The sense attached to it is direct: small, humble. A name can hold that without shrinking the person who carries it.
In Poland the name most people know is Paweł, and Pavle stands beside it as a variant. The two share one source and one meaning. Where Paweł fills the calendar and the school register, Pavle keeps a South Slavic shape, closer to Serbian and Croatian use. A child called Pavle in a Polish szkoła might spell the name twice on the first day.
Humility is the whole story. The Greek origin points at physical smallness, and later readers softened that into the humble, unassuming sense we use now. It was never a boast.
Say the name and you land where Paweł does: small, humble.
How many people are named Pavle
1 in 209276 men in Poland is named Pavle. 102 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3408 among male names.