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Paul occurs as popular male first name, from a Greek Paulos. It appears to stand been invented by Paul of Tarsus of the Bible. Within Latin, Paulus was a personal surname, never a 1st title. A Latin word paulus, related to the Greek pauros, means microscopic. A Greek word saulos, which was a most common transliteration of the Hebrew Saul, means an immoral gait [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2393443].
Many notable population were known as per individual title Paul:
Paul of Tarsus, whose birth name was Saul, a adherent & apostle of Jesus, known to many when Saint Paul. View besides Saint Paul for a St. Paul disambiguation web page.
Paul is the chosen name of many Popes of the Roman Catholic Church upon election to the papacy:
Pope Paul I
Pope Paul II
Pope Paul III
Pope Paul IV
Pope Paul V
Pope Paul VI
Paul of Russia, a Russian Tsar
Paul of Yugoslavia (Pavle), a prince regent of Yugoslavia in the 1930s
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