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Pascual

#3,490 in 2025Boys' name

Paschal, of Easter, of Passover, through Pascual

Pascual has been given to 3,054 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #3,490 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Pascual, 2025

1 in 100,000

Pascual over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pascual: meaning, origin, and history

Paschal, of Easter, of Passover, through Pascual

Spanish

What Pascual means

Pascual belongs to the name family reached through Pascual → Pascual. Its meaning is “paschal, of Easter, of Passover”.

Origin, language, and formation

Pascual is used in Cebuano, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Pascual comes through Spanish Pascual.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pascal and Pascual.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Pascual is pronounced /paskuˈal/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,054 boys were recorded with the name Pascual between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,142 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,874 in 2020 to #3,490 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,957 in 2015 to #3,490 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pascual?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,490
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pascual 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pascual. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pascuals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pascual was born before 1982 — so the typical Pascual is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
12.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,260
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 12.4% of all recorded uses (380).

Is Pascual 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
−342
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−616
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+467
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.8%
Peak was 1993 (48)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,142
1888

Spellings of Pascual

Pascual is not the most common spelling — Pasquale is, with 59.8% against Pascual's 18.0%.

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 Pascual is used

Across 1910–2025, Pascual was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 45,768 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Nebraska1 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. Pascual has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pascual around the world

Where Pascual 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
    1917–2014
    #6,594
    in 2014

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

Notable people named Pascual

People whose public names include Pascual, 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.

Pascual in other languages

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

PascalPascalePaschalPasqualePaszkál

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

Pascual by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,490
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 616
Best rank ever
#1,142
1888
Peak year
1993
48 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,054
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Pascual

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

PasqualPascalPasqualeSamualPaschalPashaEmmanualEmanualManualPascoPastorMarqualJoshualSammualEualLemualPaskelPasonRualJamualPasqualinoNathanualAbdualJaqual

Names with a curve like Pascual

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

MacarioBlasJacintoLinoTeodoroDemetrioCiroGeronimoLavonLauroClementeFaustino

Sibling names for Pascual

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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