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Paulo - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Paulo

[ 2 syll. pau-lo, pa-ulo ] The boy name Paulo is pronounced as PAOLow KEY. Paulo is primarily used in the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish languages, and it is of Latin origin. Paulo is a variant form of the English, French, and German name Paul.

Paulo is unusual as a baby name for boys. Its usage peaked modestly in 1976 with 0.005% of baby boys being given the name Paulo. Its ranking then was #943. The baby name has since fallen in popularity, and is now used on an infrequent scale. Among the group of boy names directly linked to Paulo, the English, French, and German Paul was the most popular in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Paulo include the Spanish Pablo, the Hungarian Pali, the Italian Paolo, the Finnish Pauli, the English Paulie, the Czech, Russian, and Slavic Pavel, the Russian and Ukrainian Pavlo, the Polish and Russian Pawel, the Scandinavian Påvel, the name Pili, the Scandinavian and Hungarian Pal, the Scandinavian Pall, the English, French, and German Paul, the French Paule, the Slavic Pavle, the Russian Pawl, the Hungarian Pál, the Scandinavian Pål, the Scandinavian Pelle, and the Spanish Pepillo.

KEY: English pronunciation for Paulo: P as in "pee (P.IY)" ; AO as in "ought (AO.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)"


 
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