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Etymology of Pavlovsky

What does the name Pavlovsky mean?

The surname Pavlovsky 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.


Pavlovsky migration to the United States +



Pavlovsky Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Frank Pavlovsky, who arrived in Texas in 1850-1906 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Pavlovsky (post 1700) +

  • Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky (1951-2023), Russian political scientist, a "political technologist" who during the Soviet era, he was prosecuted as a dissident


  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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