Pablito

Boys' name

Diminutive of Pablo

Pablito has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 1962. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1962, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Pablito, 2024

1 in 669,000

Pablito over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pablito: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Pablo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pablito means

Pablito is a diminutive of Pablo.

Origin, language, and formation

Pablito is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pablo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Pablito is pronounced /paˈblito/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 31 boys were recorded with the name Pablito between 1962 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1962; its best national rank was #3,922 in 1962.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Pablito?

Pablito had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Pablito sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pablito. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pablitos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pablito was born before 2004 — so the typical Pablito is around 21 today.

Median birth year: 2004; About 21 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 64.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 31; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Pablito rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1962 (6)
Years since peak: 63; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,922; 1962

Spellings of Pablito

Pablito is not the most common spelling — Pablo is, with 94.1% against Pablito's 0.06%.

Pablo94.1%50,370
Paulino3.3%1,788
Carlito2.5%1,352
Pablito0.06%31

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Pablito around the world

Where Pablito ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1958–2019
#5,820
in 2019

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Pablito by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,922; 1962
Peak year: 1962; 6 that year
First recorded: 1962
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 31
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Pablito

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Bennito Pedrito Pabel Emerito Luisito Karlito Monolito Lito Cruzito Keito Miguelito Akito Epolito Ipolito Yuito Yoshito Junito Manolito Eito Angelito Juanito Carlito Devito Manuelito

Sibling names for Pablito

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Donita Carmel Tena Jeanetta Tana Treva Jonna Edie

For a brother

Tod Greggory Mitch Berry Art Chet Toney Cornell

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