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Pasquale

#5,779 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Pascal

Pasquale has been given to 10,138 babies in the U.S. since 1894. In 2025 it ranked #5,779 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 262 recorded.

Babies named Pasquale, 2025

1 in 207,000

Pasquale over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pasquale: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Pascal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pasquale means

Pasquale is a form of Pascal.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pasquale → Pascal. The family’s meaning is “Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter”, recorded in English with the source elements paschālis.

Origin, language, and formation

Pasquale is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pascal.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Pasquale is pronounced /pasˈkwa.le/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,138 boys were recorded with the name Pasquale between 1894 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 262 in 1917; its best national rank was #300 in 1914.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,986 in 2020 to #5,779 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,224 in 2015 to #5,779 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 Pasquale?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,779
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pasquale 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pasquale. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pasquales were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pasquale was born before 1937 — so the typical Pasquale is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,675
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1920s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (2,113).

Is Pasquale 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
−774
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−793
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−555
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.1%
Peak was 1917 (262)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#300
1914

Spellings of Pasquale

Pasquale is the most-used spelling, taking 73.4% of the 13,805 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Pasquale is used

Across 1910–2025, Pasquale was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 2,041 boys, against 1 in 8,950 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

049 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Connecticut1 in 2,041
  2. 2Rhode Island1 in 2,703
  3. 3New York1 in 3,571
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 4,348
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 5,556
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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

Pasquale around the world

Where Pasquale 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
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1923–2022
    #5,057
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Pasquale

People whose public names include Pasquale, 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.

Pasquale in other languages

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

PascalPascalePaschalPascualPaszkál

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

Pasquale by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,779
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 793
Best rank ever
#300
1914
Peak year
1917
262 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,138
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Pasquale

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

PascualPascalKendaleMichaleGaleCaleKalePasqualPaschalCordaleGlendaleRoyalePashaAdewaleMikaleNataleRondaleHaleRandalePascoPastorJamaleJermaleNeale

Names with a curve like Pasquale

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

HerschelCyrilBertramWilfordFreemanAlphonseClementOdisBasilWiltonFerdinandCleo

Sibling names for Pasquale

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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