Pablo
Pablo was given to 743 boys in 2025, #430 among boys’ names; 50,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 43,300 Americans named Pablo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pablo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pablo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Pablo is “a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Paul.”
Borrowed from Spanish Pablo from Latin Paulus. Doublet of Paul.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pablo?
#430 among boys’ names, 2025
Pablo fell from #394 in 2015 to #430 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.42 to 0.43 per 1,000.
1,174 babies in 2006, the peak
Pablo peaked in 2006, when 1,174 boys were given it, #292 among boys’ names. The 743 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 743 | #430 | 0.43 |
| 2024 | 798 | #406 | 0.46 |
| 2023 | 852 | #378 | 0.50 |
| 2022 | 777 | #415 | 0.45 |
| 2021 | 774 | #402 | 0.44 |
| 2020 | 797 | #385 | 0.46 |
| 2019 | 791 | #396 | 0.44 |
| 2018 | 749 | #418 | 0.41 |
| 2017 | 700 | #444 | 0.38 |
| 2016 | 795 | #401 | 0.42 |
Every recorded year (145)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 803 | #394 | 0.42 |
| 2014 | 786 | #398 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 742 | #403 | 0.39 |
| 2012 | 826 | #366 | 0.44 |
| 2011 | 840 | #357 | 0.44 |
| 2010 | 830 | #361 | 0.43 |
| 2009 | 912 | #344 | 0.46 |
| 2008 | 1,006 | #327 | 0.49 |
| 2007 | 1,095 | #305 | 0.53 |
| 2006 | 1,174 | #292 | 0.57 |
| 2005 | 1,169 | #284 | 0.59 |
| 2004 | 1,047 | #303 | 0.53 |
| 2003 | 1,021 | #299 | 0.52 |
| 2002 | 1,011 | #295 | 0.52 |
| 2001 | 1,037 | #289 | 0.53 |
| 2000 | 1,010 | #297 | 0.51 |
| 1999 | 938 | #307 | 0.49 |
| 1998 | 903 | #310 | 0.47 |
| 1997 | 890 | #304 | 0.47 |
| 1996 | 794 | #331 | 0.42 |
| 1995 | 804 | #325 | 0.42 |
| 1994 | 767 | #327 | 0.40 |
| 1993 | 751 | #337 | 0.38 |
| 1992 | 767 | #332 | 0.38 |
| 1991 | 709 | #342 | 0.35 |
| 1990 | 680 | #353 | 0.33 |
| 1989 | 628 | #361 | 0.31 |
| 1988 | 499 | #399 | 0.26 |
| 1987 | 516 | #374 | 0.28 |
| 1986 | 522 | #361 | 0.28 |
| 1985 | 462 | #388 | 0.25 |
| 1984 | 487 | #366 | 0.27 |
| 1983 | 477 | #368 | 0.27 |
| 1982 | 500 | #358 | 0.28 |
| 1981 | 537 | #340 | 0.30 |
| 1980 | 496 | #358 | 0.28 |
| 1979 | 445 | #382 | 0.26 |
| 1978 | 433 | #370 | 0.26 |
| 1977 | 424 | #381 | 0.26 |
| 1976 | 446 | #363 | 0.28 |
| 1975 | 412 | #383 | 0.26 |
| 1974 | 409 | #384 | 0.26 |
| 1973 | 365 | #407 | 0.23 |
| 1972 | 354 | #421 | 0.22 |
| 1971 | 355 | #431 | 0.20 |
| 1970 | 377 | #421 | 0.20 |
| 1969 | 328 | #438 | 0.18 |
| 1968 | 306 | #436 | 0.18 |
| 1967 | 271 | #462 | 0.16 |
| 1966 | 277 | #457 | 0.16 |
| 1965 | 235 | #499 | 0.13 |
| 1964 | 261 | #490 | 0.13 |
| 1963 | 247 | #510 | 0.12 |
| 1962 | 277 | #479 | 0.13 |
| 1961 | 256 | #498 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 232 | #521 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 232 | #517 | 0.11 |
| 1958 | 214 | #526 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 215 | #527 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 194 | #541 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 178 | #551 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 188 | #530 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 193 | #502 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 174 | #534 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 185 | #496 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 194 | #479 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 169 | #513 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 174 | #499 | 0.10 |
| 1947 | 150 | #552 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 168 | #498 | 0.10 |
| 1945 | 127 | #531 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 145 | #503 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 136 | #541 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 120 | #565 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 119 | #547 | 0.10 |
| 1940 | 109 | #570 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 96 | #592 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 107 | #566 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 134 | #496 | 0.13 |
| 1936 | 115 | #536 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 136 | #489 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 142 | #479 | 0.14 |
| 1933 | 146 | #459 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 176 | #423 | 0.17 |
| 1931 | 155 | #453 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 209 | #401 | 0.19 |
| 1929 | 182 | #439 | 0.17 |
| 1928 | 174 | #459 | 0.16 |
| 1927 | 163 | #477 | 0.14 |
| 1926 | 200 | #430 | 0.18 |
| 1925 | 166 | #466 | 0.15 |
| 1924 | 159 | #492 | 0.14 |
| 1923 | 185 | #452 | 0.17 |
| 1922 | 139 | #533 | 0.13 |
| 1921 | 131 | #545 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 133 | #532 | 0.12 |
| 1919 | 93 | #631 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 98 | #624 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 85 | #648 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 68 | #742 | 0.08 |
| 1915 | 62 | #766 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 53 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 35 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 32 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 31 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 29 | #531 | 0.15 |
| 1909 | 34 | #434 | 0.21 |
| 1908 | 23 | #535 | 0.15 |
| 1907 | 16 | #656 | 0.11 |
| 1906 | 28 | #419 | 0.21 |
| 1905 | 12 | #731 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 22 | #463 | 0.17 |
| 1903 | 17 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1902 | 21 | #470 | 0.17 |
| 1901 | 19 | #448 | 0.18 |
| 1900 | 22 | #507 | 0.15 |
| 1899 | 13 | #575 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 7 | #967 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 20 | #432 | 0.18 |
| 1896 | 11 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 16 | #521 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 10 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 10 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 10 | #626 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 18 | #429 | 0.16 |
| 1889 | 11 | #615 | 0.10 |
| 1888 | 11 | #638 | 0.09 |
| 1887 | 12 | #536 | 0.12 |
| 1886 | 7 | #825 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 16 | #475 | 0.15 |
| 1884 | 9 | #694 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 10 | #631 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 8 | #741 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 11 | #594 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pablo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pablo has been given almost only to boys: 69 girls in 145 years of records.
Girls and boys named Pablo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pablo, and how old are they?
43,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 50,439 Americans ever recorded as Pablo. The median Pablo alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 80,699 people named Pablo (173 women and girls, 80,526 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 39,966 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 446 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,630 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,270 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 15,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Pablo born?
The states with the most babies named Pablo are Texas, California and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 202 | #189 | 3.3× |
| California | 127 | #292 | 2.2× |
| Florida | 58 | #336 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 36 | #230 | 2.1× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #457 | 0.4× |
| New York | 21 | #707 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 20 | #507 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 20 | #533 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 17 | #471 | 0.2× |
| Washington | 13 | #558 | 0.6× |
Where Pablo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pablo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pablo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 50,517 babies since 1880, Pablo is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 743 of their 743 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pablo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pablo and names like it
- Compare Pablo and PaubloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPablo peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pablo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Pablo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Pablo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Pablo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.