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Pascal

#3,635 in 2025Boys' name

Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter

Pascal has been given to 2,561 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #3,635 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Pascal, 2025

1 in 107,000

Pascal over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pascal: meaning, origin, and history

Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter

Latin

What Pascal means

Pascal means “Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter”, associated with paschālis.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Paschālis, from paschālis (“Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter”), from pascha (“Easter”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives), for birth on Easter, or in honor of the 9th-century pope Paschal I (died 824). Doublet of Paschal. The programming language was named after French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).

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Origin, language, and formation

Pascal is used in English, French and German. Its origins include Latin.

Pascal comes through Latin Paschālis.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Pascal is pronounced /pæsˈkæl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,550 boys were recorded with the name Pascal between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2024; its best national rank was #851 in 1910.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,470 in 2020 to #3,635 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,342 in 2015 to #3,635 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Pascal between 1986 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1986; its best national rank was #10,490 in 1986.

How common is Pascal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,635
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pascal 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 2025 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pascal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pascals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pascal was born before 1979 — so the typical Pascal is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
11.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,771
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 11.4% of all recorded uses (291).

Is Pascal 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
−851
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−165
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−293
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.91×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.0%
Peak was 2024 (47)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#851
1910

Spellings of Pascal

Pascal is not the most common spelling — Pascual is, with 44.9% against Pascal's 37.5%.

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.

Where Pascal is used

Across 1910–2025, Pascal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 172,587 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pascal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pascal around the world

Where Pascal 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2023
    #395
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    1964–2010
    #720
    in 2010
  • France
    1900–2025
    #3,806
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Pascal

People whose public names include Pascal, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Pascal in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Pascal. Linked forms have their own page here.

PascalePaschalPascualPasqualePaszkálPaschalis

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Pascal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,635
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 165
Best rank ever
#851
1910
Peak year
2024
47 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,550
Count in 2025
31

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,490
1986
Peak year
1986
6 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pascal

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

PascualPashaPasqualePasqualPaschalPascoPastorCalMicalMycalPaskelPasonMarcalHascalPasqualinoPasquinel

Names with a curve like Pascal

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pascal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CiroSampsonCollinsMarinoMacarioTheophilusLawtonThompsonJhonGasparGenoElie

Sibling names for Pascal

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

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