Pascal
About 2,561 American babies have been named Pascal since 1889, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 3,583rd. About 1,700 Pascals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Pascal boys named Pascal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,561
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 2,750th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,583rd
- First recorded
- 1889
- Girls / boys
- 11 / 2,550
How old the living Pascals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,561 babies given the name since 1889, about 1,700 are alive — 68 in every hundred. Roughly 570 of them are children and 210 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
from paschālis (“Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter”), from pascha + -ālis, for birth on Easter, or in honor of the 9th-century pope Paschal I (died 824). The programming language was named after French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Pascals
- Pascal Groß (born 1991)German footballer
- Pascal Quignard (born 1948)French writer
- Pascal Lissouba (1931–2020)First President of the Republic of the Congo
- Pascal Couchepin (born 1942)member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Pascal Lamy (born 1947)French businessman and political advisor
- Pascal Wehrlein (born 1994)German racing driver
- Pascal Zuberbühler (born 1971)Swiss footballer
- Pascal Chimbonda (born 1979)French footballer
People named Pascal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Pascal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Pascal is most concentrated in New York (5.0×), California (4.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Pascal peaked:
Pascal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Pascal | 307,805 | 2nd |
| Austria boys | Pascal | 2,909 | 39th |
| Switzerland boys | Pascal | 2,007 | 19th |
| Poland boys | Pascal | 570 birth registrations | 135th |
| England and Wales boys | Pascal | 229 | 809th |
| Italy boys | Pascal | 193 | — |
| Belgium boys | Pascal | 152 | 374th |
| Ireland boys | Pascal | 150 | 116th |
| France girls | Pascal | 130 | 722nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Pascal | 9 | 341st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Pascal: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Pascal | 1,940 | 0.156% | 13th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Pascal | 40 | 0.009% | 293rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Pascal | 25 | 0.038% | 59th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Pascal | 2 | 0.054% | 7th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Pascal is most concentrated in Appenzell Ausserrhoden, where 0.31% of children were given it – 36 of them.
Pascal: rank by region
In 2003, Pascal was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Pascal | 352 | 7 |
In 2024, Pascal was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Pascal | 8 | 1 |
In 2023, Pascal was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Pascal | 249 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Pascal | 218 | 3 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Pascal by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 16 | 353rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Pascal among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Pascal | 10,377 | 14,332 |
| the Netherlands girls | Pascal | 718 | 1,335 |
| Finland boys | Pascal | 15 | 33 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Pascal lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 382 men called Pascal were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Pascal | 45 | 0.045 | 1,448 |
| Girona | Pascal | 16 | 0.038 | 1,517 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Pascal | 18 | 0.034 | 2,227 |
| Balears, Illes | Pascal | 21 | 0.034 | 1,677 |
| Palmas, Las | Pascal | 18 | 0.031 | 2,353 |
| Valencia/València | Pascal | 36 | 0.027 | 1,895 |
Listed in 18 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 34 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Pascal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.