Given name
Pablito
“a small or humble man”
In Spanish use, Pablito is a diminutive of Pablo. In Spanish use, Pablo carries the interpretation “a small or humble man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Spanish use, Pablito is a diminutive of Pablo. In Spanish use, Pablo carries the interpretation “a small or humble man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Pablito is a diminutive of Pablo. Pablo comes from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Spanish usage, Pablito is a diminutive of Pablo.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pablito through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 31
- 31 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1962
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1962. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 436 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pablito’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Pablito is a diminutive of Pablo. In Spanish usage, Pablito shares a linguistic root with the Italian form Paolino.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pablito
- Pablito CalvoSpanish actor (1948-2000)
- Pablito Taguraroman-catholic clergymanborn 1962
- Pablito BarcosSpanish association football player (1913-1997)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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