How rare is the name Pawel?

3,875 people in the United States have the first name Pawel, about 1 in 77,944. It ranks #4,696 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

PAWEL

#4,696

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,875
About
1 in 77,944
This common or more
84.4%
Who bears it

Of the 3,875 people named Pawel, 99.3% reported their origin as White. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Pawel peaked in 1994, when 29 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19802016
Peak year
1994
Births that year
29
In 2016
7 ▼76%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 449 babies have been given the name since 1980. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Pawel by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #7,970. The largest share of babies named Pawel, 50.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1980s#10,77589
1990s#7,970204
2000s#13,806128
2010s#30,50828
Generation X 1965–801.1%
Millennials 1981–9650.1%
Generation Z 1997–1245.4%
2013 and later3.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Exactly as common as Pawel

2 other first names also have 3,875 people.

#4,696 Lauro · 3,875#4,696 Marleen · 3,875

Either side of Pawel

#4,696 Lauro · 3,875#4,696 Marleen · 3,875#4,699 Dylon · 3,874#4,699 Nader · 3,874

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