Pavin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma reduzida de Pavini
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pævɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pavin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 172K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 13K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,232 people
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma reduzida de Pavini
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pavin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,232 | 1 in 172K | 1.2K | Pavin | 66 |
| HR Croatia | 332 | 1 in 13K | 332 | — | — |
| US United States | 116 | 1 in 2.9M | 132 | Pavin | 11 |
| AR Argentina | 34 | 1 in 1.3M | 34 | Pavin | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 11 | 1 in 1.1M | 11 | — | — |
1,232 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pavin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, paver
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Henri Pavin de Lafargeb. 1889FRFrench politician (1889-1965)
- Lucia Pavinb. 1947ITItalian chef
- Mario Pavinb. 1958ITItalian rugby union footballer and coach
- Corey Pavinb. 1959USAmerican golfer
- Nicola Pavinb. 1984ITItalian rugby union player
- Michela Pavinb. 1994ITcyclist
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,653 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 332 | #2,362 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 293 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 132 | #133,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 116 | #143,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 115 | #134,929 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 34 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 11 | #68,071 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Pavin mean, and where does it come from?
- forma reduzida de Pavini Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Pavin?
- A machine transcription gives /pævɪn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Pavin have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Pavin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pavin.
- Where is Pavin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pavin is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pavin?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,232 people named Pavin, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pavinThe 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, “Pavin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.