Pauls as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Pauls

What is the meaning of the name Pauls ?

The baby name Pauls is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced {'IPA': '/pauls/ (Latvian); /pɔːlz/ or /pɔls/ (English approximation)', 'respelling': 'POW-ls (Latvian); PAWLS (English)'}.

Pauls is in Origin.

Pauls is the standard Latvian masculine given name corresponding to Paul, from Latin Paulus meaning “small; humble.” The -s ending reflects the Latvian nominative for male names. Its diffusion across Europe owes to the Apostle Paul’s prominence in early Christianity, and in Latvia the name entered wider use through church tradition and Baltic German influence, becoming well established by the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Within Latvian, related forms include the ecclesiastical Pāvils and affectionate diminutives such as Pauliņš. International equivalents and cognates span Paul (English, German, French), Paolo (Italian), Paulo (Portuguese), Pablo (Spanish), Pál (Hungarian), Pavel (Slavic languages), Pavao (Croatian), Paweł (Polish), and Pol (Catalan/Breton); feminine counterparts include Paula and Paulīne/Pauline. As a given name, Pauls conveys the traditional Christian virtue of humility while remaining crisp and modern in sound, and it also appears as a surname in Latvia and German-speaking regions.

⚙ Pauls is a rare name. It doesn't appear in any of the major national birth registries we track; we found only 111 recorded uses across 34 countries. Expect very few children to share this name.