Pascal is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Pasquale, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Pascal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #851 in 1910.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #851 in 1910; #3,636 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pascal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,636 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1910, at #851.
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Pascal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #851 in 1910 · most boys in one year: 47 (2024).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Pascal, making it the 3,636th most common boys’ name of the year, down 852 places from #2,784 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 47 boys named Pascal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #851, reached in 1910. The most boys given the name in a single year was 47, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,343 in 2015 and #1,862 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pascal in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 6 babies. In all, 2,561 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 291 babies named Pascal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 350 US boys were named Pascal; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Pasquale (10,138 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Pascal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 31 | #3,636 |
| 2024 | — | — | 47 | #2,784 |
| 2023 | — | — | 44 | #2,881 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,596 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,164 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,472 |
| 2019 | — | — | 29 | #3,777 |
| 2018 | — | — | 27 | #3,966 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,362 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,207 |
| 2015 | — | — | 34 | #3,343 |
| 2014 | — | — | 21 | #4,660 |
| 2013 | — | — | 30 | #3,559 |
| 2012 | — | — | 27 | #3,858 |
| 2011 | — | — | 25 | #4,075 |
| 2010 | — | — | 28 | #3,782 |
| 2009 | — | — | 26 | #4,008 |
| 2008 | — | — | 33 | #3,405 |
| 2007 | — | — | 28 | #3,767 |
| 2006 | — | — | 28 | #3,661 |
| 2005 | — | — | 21 | #4,296 |
| 2004 | — | — | 29 | #3,347 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,600 |
| 2002 | — | — | 24 | #3,639 |
| 2001 | — | — | 20 | #4,078 |
| 2000 | — | — | 25 | #3,396 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,255 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,906 |
| 1997 | — | — | 22 | #3,323 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,473 |
| 1995 | — | — | 23 | #3,071 |
| 1994 | — | — | 35 | #2,288 |
| 1993 | — | — | 32 | #2,384 |
| 1992 | — | — | 21 | #3,184 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,737 | 26 | #2,663 |
| 1990 | — | — | 34 | #2,153 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #3,061 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,573 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,619 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,495 | 19 | #2,757 |
| 1985 | — | — | 19 | #2,678 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,787 |
| 1983 | — | — | 25 | #2,132 |
| 1982 | — | — | 24 | #2,196 |
| 1981 | — | — | 26 | #2,075 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,926 |
| 1979 | — | — | 19 | #2,531 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,453 |
| 1977 | — | — | 22 | #2,189 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,677 |
| 1975 | — | — | 19 | #2,342 |
| 1974 | — | — | 30 | #1,648 |
| 1973 | — | — | 24 | #1,862 |
| 1972 | — | — | 13 | #2,783 |
| 1971 | — | — | 13 | #2,773 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,842 |
| 1969 | — | — | 20 | #1,901 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,085 |
| 1967 | — | — | 12 | #2,440 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,579 |
| 1965 | — | — | 18 | #1,900 |
| 1964 | — | — | 19 | #1,883 |
| 1963 | — | — | 20 | #1,824 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,473 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,509 |
| 1960 | — | — | 15 | #2,181 |
| 1959 | — | — | 25 | #1,616 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,471 |
| 1957 | — | — | 18 | #1,936 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,236 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,957 |
| 1954 | — | — | 19 | #1,806 |
| 1953 | — | — | 13 | #2,260 |
| 1952 | — | — | 16 | #1,990 |
| 1951 | — | — | 16 | #1,955 |
| 1950 | — | — | 17 | #1,862 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,091 |
| 1948 | — | — | 15 | #2,003 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,653 |
| 1946 | — | — | 20 | #1,634 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,234 |
| 1944 | — | — | 18 | #1,667 |
| 1943 | — | — | 15 | #1,970 |
| 1942 | — | — | 15 | #1,927 |
| 1941 | — | — | 15 | #1,881 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,962 |
| 1939 | — | — | 14 | #1,944 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,673 |
| 1937 | — | — | 22 | #1,477 |
| 1936 | — | — | 15 | #1,863 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,669 |
| 1934 | — | — | 20 | #1,595 |
| 1933 | — | — | 18 | #1,691 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,698 |
| 1931 | — | — | 24 | #1,449 |
| 1930 | — | — | 16 | #1,942 |
| 1929 | — | — | 14 | #2,171 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,132 |
| 1927 | — | — | 15 | #2,173 |
| 1926 | — | — | 27 | #1,425 |
| 1925 | — | — | 20 | #1,789 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,587 |
| 1923 | — | — | 30 | #1,352 |
| 1922 | — | — | 29 | #1,387 |
| 1921 | — | — | 38 | #1,173 |
| 1920 | — | — | 21 | #1,731 |
| 1919 | — | — | 20 | #1,743 |
| 1918 | — | — | 31 | #1,281 |
| 1917 | — | — | 23 | #1,520 |
| 1916 | — | — | 23 | #1,498 |
| 1915 | — | — | 19 | #1,647 |
| 1914 | — | — | 27 | #1,123 |
| 1913 | — | — | 22 | #1,101 |
| 1912 | — | — | 12 | #1,508 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,504 |
| 1910 | — | — | 14 | #851 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,215 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,269 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,139 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #971 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,190 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #1,049 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,210 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #951 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).