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Pascha

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Pascha has been given to 214 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1973, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Pascha, 1986

1 in 508,000

Pascha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pascha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pascha means

Pascha is a given name.

The naming story behind Pascha

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Pascha in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 215.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Russ. Slav. Good Friday child”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Pascha, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 214 girls were recorded with the name Pascha between 1969 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1973; its best national rank was #2,666 in 1973.

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.

How common is Pascha?

Pascha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1986
1 in 508,000
7 of 3,556,724 births
Among girls only
1 in 245,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1986
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
352,192 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pascha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1986 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 352,192 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pascha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paschas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pascha was born before 1975 — so the typical Pascha is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
89.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
214
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 89.3% of all recorded uses (191).

Is Pascha 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1973 (27)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,666
1973

Spellings of Pascha

Pascha is not the most common spelling — Sasha is, with 38.7% against Pascha's 0.22%.

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 Pascha is used

Across 1910–2025, Pascha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Pascha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pascha around the world

Where Pascha 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
    2003–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Pascha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,666
1973
Peak year
1973
27 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
214
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pascha

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

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Sibling names for Pascha

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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