Pascal
Pascal was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,635 among boys’ names; 2,561 Americans have been recorded with it since 1889 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,730 Americans named Pascal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 13 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pascal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pascal mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Pascal is “a male given name from Latin used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French.” Its etymology gives the senses “Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter” (paschālis) and “Easter” (pascha).
From Latin Paschālis, from paschālis (“Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter”), from pascha (“Easter”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives), for birth on Easter, or in honor of the 9th-century pope Paschal I (died 824). Doublet of Paschal.
/pæsˈkæl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pascal?
#3,635 among boys’ names, 2025
Pascal fell from #3,342 in 2015 to #3,635 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 17.7 to 18.1 per million.
47 babies in 2024, the peak
Pascal peaked in 2024, when 47 boys were given it, #2,784 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,635 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,784 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 44 | #2,880 | 25.7 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,594 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,163 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,470 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,774 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,962 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,360 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,206 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (124)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,342 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,656 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,557 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,855 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,073 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,781 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #4,006 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,403 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,765 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,659 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,291 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,343 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,595 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,634 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,072 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,390 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,251 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,903 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,318 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,468 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,066 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,283 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,378 | 16.3 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,178 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,657 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,148 | 16.6 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,055 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,568 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,615 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,754 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,676 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,786 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,131 | 13.9 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,195 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,074 | 14.5 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,925 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,530 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,452 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,189 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,676 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,341 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 30 | #1,648 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 24 | #1,861 | 15.4 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,781 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,771 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,841 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,900 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,084 | 9.2 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,439 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,578 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,899 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,882 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 20 | #1,823 | 9.8 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,472 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,508 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,180 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 25 | #1,615 | 11.7 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,470 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,935 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,235 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,956 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,805 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,259 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,989 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,954 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,861 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,090 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,002 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,651 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 20 | #1,633 | 12.3 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,233 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 18 | #1,666 | 13.2 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,969 | 10.5 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,927 | 10.9 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,881 | 12.2 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,962 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,944 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,673 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,477 | 20.6 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,863 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,669 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,595 | 19.4 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,691 | 18.2 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,698 | 18.2 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,449 | 23.1 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,942 | 14.6 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,170 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,132 | 13.5 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,173 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,425 | 24.3 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,788 | 17.9 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,587 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,352 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,387 | 26.7 |
| 1921 | 38 | #1,173 | 34.5 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,731 | 19.7 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,742 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 31 | #1,281 | 30.6 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,520 | 24.9 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,497 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,646 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 27 | #1,123 | 41.2 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,101 | 42.9 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,507 | 27.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,503 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 14 | #851 | 72.1 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,214 | 45.1 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,268 | 40.8 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,138 | 46.5 |
| 1898 | 7 | #970 | 57.1 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,189 | 44.3 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,048 | 51.8 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,209 | 41.0 |
| 1889 | 6 | #951 | 54.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pascal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pascal has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 124 years of records.
Girls and boys named Pascal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pascal, and how old are they?
1,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 67% of the 2,561 Americans ever recorded as Pascal. The median Pascal alive today is 30 years old; half are between 13 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 3,603 people named Pascal (146 women and girls, 3,457 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,605 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 51 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 248 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 388 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 407 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 432 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Pascal born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,715 | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pascal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,615 babies since 1880, Pascal is the second most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 64 babies (48%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pascal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pascal and names like it
- Compare Pascal and PascualBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sPascal peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pascal since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Pascal: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Pascal.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Pascal alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.