Show ContentsPavlovich History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The surname Pavlovich is derived from the given name Pavel, which is the Slavic form of the name Paul. Paul was originally derived from the Latin word Paulus, which meant small. The popularity of the given name Paul is a result of the widespread devotion to the apostle St. Paul and also to the frequency of the surname among the Roman pontiffs, six of whom to date have been named Pope Paul. In Eastern Europe, the name was common because of the Russian Tsar Paul I, who was Tsar from 1754 to 1801.


United States Pavlovich migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Pavlovich Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Nicholas Pavlovich, aged 40, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1851 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Pavlovich (post 1700) +

  • Viktor Pavlovich Potapov (1934-2021), Russian officer of the Soviet military, the last head of Soviet Naval Aviation, and the first head of Russian Naval Aviation
  • Dmitri Pavlovich Kogan (1978-2017), Russian violinist and an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation
  • Vladimir Pavlovich Malaniuk (1957-2017), Ukrainian chess grandmaster and three-time Ukrainian champion
  • Nikolai Pavlovich Zhugan (1917-2017), Russian Air Force Major General, a pilot during the Great Patriotic War, and Hero of the Soviet Union (1944)
  • Ivan Pavlovich Bardin (1883-1960), Soviet metallurgist
  • Alexey Pavlovich Sokolsky (1908-1969), Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and chess theoretician
  • Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (b. 1943), former Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (November 23, 1983 and December 29, 1987)
  • George Pavlovich Ignatieff (1913-1989), Russian-Canadian diplomat and Rhodes Scholar


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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