# Pablo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/pablo/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 50,439 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 50,370 / 69 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 814, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Pablo from Latin Paulus. Doublet of Paul.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 5 | 4,937 |
| 1935 | 7 | 3,668 |
| 1983 | 5 | 11,488 |
| 1985 | 9 | 7,384 |
| 1989 | 8 | 9,399 |
| 1990 | 7 | 11,042 |
| 1991 | 7 | 11,140 |
| 1994 | 10 | 8,609 |
| 1996 | 6 | 13,020 |
| 2000 | 5 | 16,906 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 840 | 357 |
| 2012 | 826 | 366 |
| 2013 | 742 | 403 |
| 2014 | 786 | 398 |
| 2015 | 803 | 394 |
| 2016 | 795 | 401 |
| 2017 | 700 | 444 |
| 2018 | 749 | 418 |
| 2019 | 791 | 396 |
| 2020 | 797 | 385 |
| 2021 | 774 | 402 |
| 2022 | 777 | 415 |
| 2023 | 852 | 378 |
| 2024 | 798 | 406 |
| 2025 | 743 | 430 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 944 |
| 2012 | 17 | 1,430 |
| 2013 | 23 | 1,116 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,178 |
| 2015 | 31 | 950 |
| 2016 | 24 | 1,157 |
| 2017 | 32 | 943 |
| 2018 | 40 | 801 |
| 2019 | 31 | 929 |
| 2020 | 29 | 962 |
| 2021 | 31 | 963 |
| 2022 | 27 | 1,058 |
| 2023 | 30 | 987 |
| 2024 | 31 | 981 |
| 2025 | 23 | 1,226 |

## People named Pablo

- Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and politician (1904-1973)
- Pablo Escobar, Colombian politician and drug lord (1949–1993)
- Pablo Zabaleta, Argentine footballer
- Pablo Aimar, Argentine association football manager (born 1979)
- Pablo Armero, Colombian footballer (born 1986)
- Pablo Piatti, Argentine footballer
- Pablo Contreras, Chilean footballer
- Pablo Cavallero, Argentine footballer
- Pablo Larraín, Chilean film director, producer and screenwriter
- Pablo Schreiber, Canadian and American actor
- Pablo Prigioni, Argentine basketball player and coach
- Pablo Hernández, Argentine-born Chilean footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.