Pasha vs Pasqualina

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Pasha 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 95 years in which either name was published, Pasha for 56 years and Pasqualina for 39 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

• 1908–1964 Pasqualina ahead
• 1966 Pasha ahead
• 1967–1968 Pasqualina ahead
• 1969 Pasha ahead
• 1970 Pasqualina ahead
• 1971 Pasha ahead
• 1972 Pasqualina ahead
• 1973–2025 Pasha ahead

Side by side

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 Pashas are over 31. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Pasha California (9.9×)
• 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.

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