Paulì
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Paulì is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Paulī, genitive of Paulus.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 54K
- NLNetherlands1 in 60K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
2,104 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pauli in US United States, CH Switzerland, NL Netherlands and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Latin Paulī, genitive of Paulus.
Cited for this meaning 8
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Paulì counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,104 | 1 in 158K | 2.1K | Pauli | 233 |
| CH Switzerland | #698 | 1,474 | 1 in 5.7K | 1.5K | Pauli | 53 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 289 | 1 in 60K | 289 | Pauli | 21 |
| AR Argentina | — | 222 | 1 in 205K | 222 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 173 | 1 in 68K | 173 | Pauli | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | 102 | 1 in 54K | 102 | — | 6 |
| HR Croatia | — | 65 | 1 in 65K | 65 | — | — |
2,104 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paulì mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Paulī, genitive of Paulus. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Paulì have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Paulì, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pauli.
- Where is Paulì most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paulì is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paulì?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,104 people named Paulì in 2010, about 1 in 158 thousand residents.
- How common is Paulì compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Paulì is the 698th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paul%C3%ACThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Paulì” — the 698th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.