Paulius
Just 42 men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it in years: most Poles will never meet a Paulius. The root is Latin, tied to the sense of "small" or "humble".
Paulius Pronunciation
Paulius is pronounced pah-OOL-yoos (/paˈuljus/).
What Paulius means
Where Paulius comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Paulius reaches back to Latin, to the adjective paulus, meaning small or little. Roman families wore it as a cognomen, a personal tag added after the clan name. A man called Paulus was marked as the lesser or the younger one, and the label stuck without shame.
From that root comes the sense the name still holds: small, humble. The humility is a reading that grew over the centuries, helped along by the Apostle Paul, who called himself the least of those who spread the faith. The Latin word itself only measured size.
Say the name in a Polish register and it settles quickly. A child named Paulius answers to it in a school class register with no need for translation. Latin gave it its size. Everything else came later. The story ends where it began, in paulus, small and humble.
How many people are named Paulius
1 in 508243 men in Poland is named Paulius. 42 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5958 among male names.