Paschal vs Pasqualina
American parents have registered 641 Pasqualinas since 1880, against 592 Paschals. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Paschal 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 73 years in which either name was published, Pasqualina for 38 years and Paschal for 35 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1908–1932 Pasqualina ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1933–1965 Paschal ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1967–1972 Pasqualina ahead
- 1985–2024 Paschal ahead, apart from one short spell
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Paschal | Pasqualina | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 592 | 641 |
| Most in one year | 21 | 40 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 170 | 120 |
| Median age today | 65 | 57 |
| Peak year | 1926 | 1919 |
| Best rank | 1,661st boys | 1,177th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1902 | 1908 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 592 | 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 Paschals alive today are over 65; half the Pasqualinas are over 57. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Paschal and Pasqualina.