Pavelko

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pəˈvɛɫkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pavelko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ukrainian Павелко (Pavelko).

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 12Kas Павелко(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 94Kas Павелко
  • PLPoland1 in 95K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pavelko itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
114 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PavelkoLatin(measured from records)
ПавелкоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Павелко in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, CN China.

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)

Borrowed from Ukrainian Павелко (Pavelko).

Sources 2

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pavelko 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.

Where Pavelko is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈11,000 est.≈1 in 124K—Павелко1
UA Ukraine≈3,500 est.≈1 in 12K—Павелко39
RU Russia≈1,500 est.≈1 in 94K—Павелко114
US United States5201 in 640K524Pavelko13
PL Poland4031 in 95K213Pavelko6
HR Croatia291 in 146K29——

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pavelko is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Павелко

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Pávelkó

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary

    Also written Pavelkó

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Pavelko,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Pavelko
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020524#44,220
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010520#41,799
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000494#41,522
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026213—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—213#15,503
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026190—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—190#17,004
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202129#18,630
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202128—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pavelko mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Ukrainian Павелко (Pavelko). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
How do you pronounce Pavelko?
A machine transcription gives /pəˈvɛɫkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Pavelko have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Pavelko in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled павелко.
Where is Pavelko most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pavelko is densest in Poland — about 1 in 95 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pavelko?
In the United States, the national register counted 520 people named Pavelko in 2010, about 1 in 640 thousand residents.

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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, “Pavelko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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