MEANING & HISTORY
What does Pablo mean?
Pablo continues Latin Paulus in Spanish. Paulus is associated with paulus, small or little, and is the source of Paul and Italian Paolo.
The biblical apostle is an important reason the name travelled widely. Pablo’s consonants reflect Spanish development from Latin; they do not change the inherited gloss. The meaning concerns the old name, not a person’s physical stature.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ˈpablo/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˈpaː.blo]Standard-Tagalog
Pa · blo2 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish Pablo, from Old Spanish Pablo, from Latin Paulus. Doublet of Paul, Paulo, and Paolo.
a male given name from Spanish
EnglishEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish Pablo from Latin Paulus. Doublet of Paul.
A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Paul.
SpanishEtymology & source
a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Paul
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Pablo
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Pablo Ocampo
Filipino politician (1853-1925)
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Pablo P. Garcia
Filipino politician (1925–2021)
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
37
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
20
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Pablo P. Garcia, Pablo Ocampo
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Pablo in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Pablo
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Paolo♂Italian form of Paul; small
- Paulo♂Small or little
- Pablito♂Spanish diminutive of Pablo
- Paco♂Spanish affectionate form of Francisco
- Pando·As a Spanish word: curved; also shallow or slow in context
- Pasyo♂Familiar form of Bonifacio
- Paul♂Small or little
- Paula♀Feminine form of Paul; small
What rhymes with Pablo?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Recorded combinations with Pablo
2 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
Explore combinations →Explore Pablo further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q2045138 — Pablo (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Pablo P. Garcia (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q2045138 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Pablo Ocampo (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q2045138 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Pablo (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Pablo (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Pablo (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Pablo (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.