Pablo

Where Pablo comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Pablo from Latin Paulus. Doublet of Paul.
— Wiktionary's entry for Pablo
  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Pablo Picasso born
    Spanish painter and sculptor
  3. 1904
    Pablo Neruda born
    Chilean poet and politician
  4. 2005
    Peak, #284
    1,169 babies named Pablo — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Paul.
Namesakes
  • Pablo Picasso · Spanish painter and sculptor, 1881–1973
  • Pablo Neruda · Chilean poet and politician, 1904–1973
  • Pablo Escobar · Colombian politician and drug lord, 1949–1993
  • Pablo Zabaleta · Argentine footballer, born 1985
  • Pablo Sarabia · Spanish association football player, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.