How rare is the name Pablo?

80,699 people in the United States have the first name Pablo, about 1 in 3,743. It ranks #657 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

PABLO

#657

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
80,699
About
1 in 3,743
This common or more
63.4%
Who bears it

Of the 80,699 people named Pablo, 95.4% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 2.5% as White and 1.2% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Pablo peaked in 2006, when 1,174 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2006
Births that year
1,174
In 2025*
743 ▼37%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 50,439 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Pablo by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #615. The largest share of babies named Pablo, 31.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#1,29395
1890s#1,453121
1900s#1,274214
1910s#1,438586
1920s#1,0211,632
1930s#1,0081,428
1940s#1,1521,417
1950s#1,1811,967
1960s#1,0562,690
1970s#8734,020
1980s#7925,146
1990s#6758,033
2000s#61510,487
2010s#7937,862
2020s#8114,741
Before 19010.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–274.1%
Silent Generation 1928–455%
Baby boom 1946–647.7%
Generation X 1965–8011.8%
Millennials 1981–9619.7%
Generation Z 1997–1231.2%
2013 and later20%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Pablo is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Pablo has been most common in New Mexico (4×), Texas (4×), and Arizona (3.2×), and least common in Louisiana (0.05×).

47,048 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Pablo, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Pablo ranks #4,597 of 156,621, with 7,484 people. See Pablo as a last name

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