Pavelko
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pɐʋeɫkɔ/(machine-generated) Ukrainian · model-generated · read from павелко
Pavelko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ukrainian Павелко (Pavelko).
- PLPoland1 in 95K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 146K
- FIFinland1 in 151K
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. 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 named Павелко, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Павелко in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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).
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Павелко | 39 |
| RU Russia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Павелко | 114 |
| US United States | 520 | 1 in 640K | 524 | Pavelko | 13 |
| PL Poland | 403 | 1 in 95K | 213 | Pavelko | 6 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 228K | 56 | Павелко | 24 |
| FI Finland | 37 | 1 in 151K | 37 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 29 | 1 in 146K | 29 | — | — |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dave PavelkoUSbasketball player
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)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 524 | #44,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 520 | #41,799 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 494 | #41,522 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 213 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 213 | #15,503 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 190 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 190 | #17,004 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 37 | #29,595 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 29 | #18,630 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 28 | — |
| US United States | wru 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?
- In Ukrainian /pɐʋeɫkɔ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Pavelko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Павелко in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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 Ukraine 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.
What do you want to know about Pavelko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pavelkoThe 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, “Pavelko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.