Páll: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

Long before computers fixed spellings, Páll and Paul were used side by side. The family name meaning is “From Paulus, "small"”, the same as for Paul. Records show Páll as one of the forms Paul took over time. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Paull, Pauls and Pauels.

The 2010 census count for Páll in the United States was 625, good for rank 35,912. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Pell, Pahl and Pill.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Páll, so the heraldry linked to Paul is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Páll report, with a museum-style coat of arms.