Pablo

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Pablo: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Pablo: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #493 in 2006, and it stood at #655 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#493highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#725
1998	#813
1999	#776
2000	#1002
2001	#751
2002	#950
2003	#746
2004	#970
2005	#919
2006	#764
2007	#677
2008	#699
2009	#777
2010	#792
2011	#944
2012	#1430
2013	#1116
2014	#1178
2015	#950
2016	#1157
2017	#943
2018	#801
2019	#929
2020	#962
2021	#963
2022	#1058
2023	#987
2024	#981

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #981 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1168 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2003–2024
Highest recorded position: #493 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2006 (recorded 2003–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #981 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Pablo appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 791 births with the name.

Pablo across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Pablo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1168 (1996)	#677 (2007)	#981 (2024)	29 of 29	791 (1996–2024)	42 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#500 (2003)	#493 (2006)	#655 (2024)	10 of 22	38 (2003–2024)	5 (2014)

Pablo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Pablo in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	73	4 of 10	18
2000s	283	10 of 10	28
2010s	287	10 of 10	29
2020sbusiest	148	5 of 10	30

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 30 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Pablo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #493 in Republic of Ireland in 2006.

Pablo's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#981	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#987	30	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1058	27	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#963	31	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#962	29	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#929	31	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#801	40	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#943	32	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1157	24	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#950	31	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1178	22	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1116	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#944	30	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#792	37	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#777	37	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#699	42	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#677	42	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#764	33	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#919	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#970	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#746	28	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#950	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1002	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#776	21	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#813	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#725	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1168	11	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#615	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#550	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#616	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #493, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 42 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 7 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Adriano · #493, 27y
Ilya · #493, 27y
Mubarak · #493, 29y
Praise · #493, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adriano · #493, 27y
Ilya · #493, 27y
Mubarak · #493, 29y
Praise · #493, 25y

Pablo was ranked #493 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2006. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Pablo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Pablo without appearing here.

Pablo moved ahead of

Johannes Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1430 and #1313 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1116 and #2660.
Shannon Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1168 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #725 and #1761.
Grant Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1430 and #1313 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1116 and #2055.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1002 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #751 and #1595.

Moved ahead of Pablo

Roman Compare
In 2008 they stood at #493 and #596 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2009 that had become #701 and #386.
Brodie Compare
In 2008 they stood at #493 and #596 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2009 that had become #701 and #404.
Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #746 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #970 and #731.
Alfred Compare
In 2008 they stood at #493 and #596 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2009 that had become #701 and #472.

Moved the opposite way to Pablo

Matheo Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Pablo went from #677 to #981 while Matheo went from #4333 to #1517.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #493 in Republic of Ireland in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Pablo

Pablo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Pablo across 2 official records

Pablo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Pablo appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Pablo

Pablo and the names beside it

Pablo moved ahead of

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Pablo at a glance

Pablo across 2 official records

Pablo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Pablo appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Pablo

Pablo and the names beside it

Pablo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Pablo

Moved the opposite way to Pablo