Pascual vs Pasquale
American parents have registered 10,138 Pasquales since 1880, against 3,054 Pascuals. But in 2025 it was Pascual that was commoner, 33 babies to 16.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Pascual Pasquale
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 133 years in which either name was published, Pasquale for 102 years and Pascual for 31 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1894–1988 Pasquale ahead
- 1993–1996 Pascual ahead
- 1997–1999 Pasquale ahead
- 2002–2025 Pascual ahead, apart from one short spell
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Pascual | Pasquale | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,054 | 10,138 |
| Most in one year | 48 | 262 |
| Babies in 2025 | 33 | 16 |
| Estimated living today | 2,200 | 3,800 |
| Median age today | 32 | 55 |
| Peak year | 1993 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 1,769th boys | 341st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,450th | 5,608th |
| First recorded | 1888 | 1894 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 3,054 | 0 / 10,138 |
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 Pasquales alive today are over 55; half the Pascuals are over 32. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Pascual Texas (6.1×), California (3.9×), Florida (1.8×)
- Pasquale Connecticut (10.1×), Rhode Island (7.8×), New York (5.7×)
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.
| Country | Pascual | Pasquale |
|---|---|---|
| France | 180 | 555 |
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: Pascual and Pasquale.