Mean your name is Pavel, son of so and so, etc, right?
I'm going to look it up now..
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother is a matronymic, or matronym.
In some Slavic languages, endings such as -vich, -viè, -viæ, -wicz (all pronounced as "vich") are used to form patronymics. For example, in Russian a man named Ivan whose father's name is Nikolay would be known as Ivan Nikolayevich or "Ivan, son of Nikolay" (with Nikolayevich as a patronymic). For women, the ending is -yevna or -ovna. For masculine names ending in a vowel, such as Ilya or Foma, the corresponding endings are -ich and -inichna. The patronymic is used when addressing somebody both formally as well as among friends. A Russian will almost never formally address a person named Mikhail as just 'Mikhail', but rather as 'Mikhail' plus his patronymic (for instance, 'Mikhail Nikolayevich' or 'Mikhail Sergeyevich' etc). However, on informal occasions when a person is using the diminutive of a name, such as Misha for Mikhail, the patronymic is never used. Alternatively, on informal occasions the ending of a patronomic may be colloquially contracted: Nikolayevech -> Nikolaich, Stepan Ivanovich -> Stepan Ivanych -> Ivanych (the given name may be omitted altogether). In the case of this omission of the first name the contraction, if possible, is obligatory: Ivan Sergeyevich Sidorov may be called simply "Sergeich", but never simply "Sergeyevich". The contraction never happens with a surname that has a form of patronymic. The latter Russian surnames are usually of West Slavic or South Slavic origin: Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich, Vladislav Khodasevich
