Pablo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Paul (biblical character)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pablo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pablo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 131(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 140
- ESSpain1 in 219
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pablo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #174 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 492 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 131 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Павло in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spanish form of Paul; Lat. paulus 'small'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pablo is read(measured from records)
Pablo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish79%
Paul (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Latín Paulus/Paullus: ‘pequeño’; difundido por el apóstol Pablo.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English5.4%
A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Paul.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pablo in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pablo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #21 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 131 | 1.2K | Pablo | 240 |
| UA Ukraine | #47 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 188 | listed | Павло | 150 |
| ES Spain | #38 | 227,981 | 1 in 219 | 228K | Pablo | 300 |
| BR Brazil | #201 | 152,518 | 1 in 1.4K | 153K | Pablo | 219 |
| PE Peru | #52 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 390 | — | Pablo | 141 |
| CL Chile | #50 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 247 | 329 | Pablo | 195 |
| UY Uruguay | #2 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 140 | — | Pablo | 158 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pablo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Spanish form of Paul; Lat. paulus 'small'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Swedish, Pablo är en spansk form av → Paul. En känd namnbärare är den spanske konstnären Pablo Picasso (1881–1973).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Forme espagnole de Paul, du latin Paulus, « petit, humble ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Benito Juárezb. 1806MXnot in their usual namePresident of Mexico from 1858 to 1872
- Pablo de Sarasateb. 1844ESSpanish violinist and composer (1844–1908)
- Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco Picassob. 1881ESSpanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
- Pablo Nerudab. 1904CLChilean poet and politician (1904-1973)
- Pablo Escobarb. 1949COColombian drug lord (1949–1993)
- Felipe VI of Spainb. 1968ESnot in their usual nameKing of Spain since 2014
- Diego Simeoneb. 1970ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player and manager (born 1970)
- Pablo Contrerasb. 1978CLChilean footballer
- Pablo Iglesias Turriónb. 1978ESSpanish politician (born 1978)
- Gavib. 2004ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 109 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 228K | #29 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 224K | #19 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 153K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 152K | #221 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 133K | #361 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 944 | #221 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 570 | #251 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 329 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 61 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 61 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Pablo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 346 thousand people named Pablo in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pablo.
- Where does the name Pablo come from?
- Spanish form of Paul; Lat. paulus 'small'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What are other forms of the name Pablo?
- In the etymology graph, Paul, Paolo and Pavel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Pablo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 227,981 people named Pablo, about 1 in 219 residents.
- How common is Pablo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Pablo is the 21st most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Pablo mean?
- In Spanish, Paul (biblical character)
- Is Pablo a male or female name?
- Pablo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Pablo?
- A machine transcription gives /pablo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What do you want to know about Pablo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pabloThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pablo” — the 21st most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.