Pablo

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Pablo boys named Pablo

By the numbers

Total US births

50,439

Estimated living today

43,000

Median age today

24

Peak year

2006

Best rank

292nd

Rank in 2025

429th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

69 / 50,370

How old the living Pablos are

born that year still alive today

Of the 50,439 babies given the name since 1880, about 43,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 14,000 of them are children and 2,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Pablos

• Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)Chilean poet and politician
• Pablo Escobar (1949–1993)Colombian drug lord
• Pablo Zabaleta (born 1985)Argentine footballer
• Pablo Sarabia (born 1992)Spanish association football player
• Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (born 1938)Peruvian politician and economist; Prime Minister (2005–06), President
• Pablo Aimar (born 1979)Argentine association football manager
• Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908)Spanish violinist and composer
• Pablo Iglesias Turrión (born 1978)Spanish politician

People named Pablo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Pablo is most common

• TX14,519
• CA12,994
• NY3,350
• FL2,463
• IL1,968
• AZ1,860
• NJ1,120
• NM1,028
• GA672
• CO659

Relative to how many babies each state records, Pablo is most concentrated in New Mexico (4.0×), Texas (4.0×), Arizona (3.2×), California (2.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2006

The most popular boys’ names the year Pablo peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Joshua
• Ethan
• Matthew
• Daniel

All the names of 2006

Pablo elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Pablo: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Pablo is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.23% of children were given it – 33 of them.

Pablo: rank by region

In 2025, Pablo was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Pablo was among the 10 most common names in 10 regions of Spain, and first in 1 of them. It has come first somewhere in 17 different years.

In 2020, Pablo was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Pablo was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Pablo appears in the lists for Province of Liège (93rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (112th), Province of Hainaut (174th), Brussels-Capital Region (187th) and Province of East Flanders (264th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Pablo by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Pablo among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Pablo lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 227,981 men called Pablo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.