Paschal

Boys' name

Variant of Paschalis

Paschal has been given to 592 babies in the U.S. since 1902. 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 1926, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Paschal, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paschal: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Paschalis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Paschal means

Paschal is a variant of Paschalis.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Paschal is used in History.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Paschalis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 592 boys were recorded with the name Paschal between 1902 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1926; its best national rank was #1,269 in 1902.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Paschal?

Paschal 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 Paschal 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 Paschal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paschals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Paschal was born before 1933 — so the typical Paschal is around 92 today.

Median birth year: 1933; About 92 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 5.4%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 145; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (149).

Is Paschal 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 1926 (21)
Years since peak: 99; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,269; 1902

Spellings of Paschal

Paschal is not the most common spelling — Pascual is, with 44.9% against Paschal's 8.7%.

Pascual44.9%3,054
Pascal37.5%2,550
Pasqual9.0%613
Paschal8.7%592

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 Paschal is used

Across 1910–2025, Paschal was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 737,056 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Tennessee1 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. Paschal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Paschal around the world

Where Paschal 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.

Ireland
1964–1988
#271
in 1988
South Australia
1970–1970
#540
in 1970

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Paschal 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: #1,269; 1902
Peak year: 1926; 21 that year
First recorded: 1902
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 592
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Paschal

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

Pasqual Pascual Pasha Kushal Pascal Hershal Pasco Vishal Nihal Mychal Pastor Marshal Pasquale Michal Orenthal Kaushal Harshal Sahal Krishal Nischal Mitchal Othal Paskel Khushal

Sibling names for Paschal

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

Berta Delma Allene Darline Concepcion Easter Leatrice Ima

For a brother

Jewel Napoleon Raymon Domenick Hosea Rollin Wilburn Wilford

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