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Pasha vs Pasqual

American parents have registered 906 Pashas since 1880, against 613 Pasquals. Pasha is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Pasha against Pasqual, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Pasha Pasqual

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 108 years in which either name was published, Pasha for 60 years and Pasqual for 48 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Pasha Pasqual
Total US births 906613
Most in one year 2731
Babies in 2025 11under 5
Estimated living today 880180
Median age today 3168
Peak year 19741922
Best rank 2,922nd girls1,308th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19641913
Girls / boys 498 / 4080 / 613

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 Pasquals alive today are over 68; half the Pashas are over 31. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pasha and Pasqual.