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Pau

boy name
Origin
Catalan
Syllables
1
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

small, humble (Catalan form of Paul), and separately the Catalan word for peace; the double meaning is why it endures

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How popular is Pau around the world?

In the United States, Pau is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. In Spain, 35,499 residents are named Pau, the 99th most common name among men, with a mean age of 20.2 years.

Pau is on the official records of the United States, Spain, South Australia, Montevideo, Mexico City, Argentina, England and Wales and Brazil.

United States

on record

In the United States, Pau is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.

1890srare in US records2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Pau has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Spain

#46 · 2024

In Spain, 35,499 residents are named Pau, the 99th most common name among men, with a mean age of 20.2 years.
In Spain, Pau was the 46th most common name among boys born in 2024.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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South Australia

1 in 9,200 · 2017

In South Australia, 1 girl was registered as Pau in 2017.
In South Australia, 1 boy was registered as Pau in 2017.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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Montevideo City

1 in 25,000 · 2011

In Montevideo, 1 boy named Pau was born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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Mexico City City

1 in 39,000

In Mexico City, there were 3 registrations of Pau in 2022.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Argentina

1 in 110,000

In Argentina, 6 newborns were given the name Pau in 2024.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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England and Wales

1 in 200,000

In England and Wales, 3 boys named Pau were born in 2025, ranked 5,137th among boys that year.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.

Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales

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Brazil

At the 2022 census, 23 people in Brazil were named Pau, ranked 113,027th, with a median age of 45.

People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Not on the record in Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.

Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown.

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