Pascal vs Pasqualina
American parents have registered 2,561 Pascals since 1880, against 641 Pasqualinas. Pascal is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Pascal Pasqualina
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 126 years in which either name was published, Pascal for 111 years and Pasqualina for 15 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.
- 1889–1906 Pascal ahead
- 1908–1909 Pasqualina ahead
- 1910 Pascal ahead
- 1911–1912 Pasqualina ahead
- 1913–1914 Pascal ahead
- 1915–1920 Pasqualina ahead
- 1921–1922 Pascal ahead
- 1923–1924 Pasqualina ahead
- 1925–1927 Pascal ahead
- 1928–1930 Pasqualina ahead
- 1931–2025 Pascal ahead
Side by side
| Pascal | Pasqualina | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,561 | 641 |
| Most in one year | 47 | 40 |
| Babies in 2025 | 31 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,700 | 120 |
| Median age today | 29 | 57 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 1919 |
| Best rank | 2,750th boys | 1,177th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,583rd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1889 | 1908 |
| Girls / boys | 11 / 2,550 | 641 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Pasqualinas alive today are over 57; half the Pascals are over 29. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Pascal New York (5.0×), California (4.3×)
- Pasqualina New York (8.8×), Massachusetts (6.8×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
Compare something else
Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pascal and Pasqualina.