Pascale
Feminine · “Of Easter”
Pascale is the French feminine of Pascal, the name of a child born at Easter, and it carries one of the great minds of the seventeenth century inside it. Two syllables, crisp and French.
How old is the name Pascale?
Pascale first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Pascale alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 600 people named Pascale are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Pascale most popular?
Pascale peaked in 1964, reaching #3515 nationally. See the whole 1964 chart.
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Where it comes from
From paschalis to Pascale
The story of Pascale
Pascal was a French name for a boy born near Easter, and Pascale its feminine. At nineteen Blaise Pascal built a calculating machine to help his father, a tax official, with endless sums; the Pascaline, as it came to be called, is one of the first mechanical calculators. In 1648 he had his brother-in-law carry a barometer up the Puy de Dôme and watched the mercury fall with the height, showing that the air has weight — which is why the modern unit of pressure is called the pascal. Pascale came into American use in the middle of the twentieth century, mostly with French and French-Canadian families.
Meaning
Of Easter
From Latin paschalis, 'of Easter', ultimately from the Hebrew name for Passover.
How the name formed
- paschalis
- Pascal
- Pascale
Related forms: Pascale · Pasqualina · Pascuala · Pascaline
Pronouncing Pascale
pas-KAL
Two syllables with the stress on the second; the final e is silent.
Nicknames for Pascale
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 197117 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3515reached in 1964
- Change vs 2020
- +16.7%7 in 2024, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Pascale in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Pascale in French — same name
- Pasqualina in Italian — related form
- Pascuala in Spanish — related form
- Pascaline in French — related form
Pascales among us
people named Pascale are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Pascale sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- A clear, settled meaning.
- Linked to one of the great names of French science.
- Rare in America.
- English speakers will hear Pascal and may assume a boy.
- The final e is silent, so some will try to say it.
- It will need spelling out.
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Frequently asked
- How many Pascales are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Pascale are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Pascale in 2025?
- Pascale is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Pascale will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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