Pasquale
Masculine · “of Easter”
Pasquale is Easter. Italian families gave the name to children born at that season, and the word travels back through Latin and Greek to the Hebrew pesach — Passover, the feast Easter grew out of.
How old is the name Pasquale?
Pasquale first appears in US birth records in 1894 — 131 years ago. The typical Pasquale alive today was born around 1937, making them about 88 years old. About 4,000 people named Pasquale are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Pasquale most popular?
Pasquale peaked in 1914, reaching #300 nationally. Today it ranks #5608, 5,308 places below that high. See the whole 1914 chart.
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Where it comes from
From pesach to Pasquale
The story of Pasquale
Naming children for the feast they were born on was ordinary practice in Catholic Europe — Natale for Christmas, Epifanio for Epiphany, Pasquale for Easter. A fifteenth-century Spanish friar, Paschal Baylon, gave the name a saint and spread it further. Italian emigration to America from the 1890s brought Pasquale in large numbers, and it peaked in American records around 1915.
Meaning
of Easter, of Passover
From the Latin paschalis, 'relating to Easter', from pascha, which Latin took from the Greek rendering of the Hebrew pesach, 'Passover'. The chain is fully documented, and it is one of the clearest cases of a name carrying a word across four languages without changing its sense.
How the name formed
- pesach
- pascha
- paschalis
- Pasquale
Related forms: Pasquale · Pascual · Pascal · Pascoal
Pronouncing Pasquale
pas-KWAH-lay
Three syllables, stress in the middle, in Italian. American speakers often flatten it to two — pas-KWAL — which Italian speakers will notice.
Nicknames for Pasquale
Moderate
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
- 1894
- Most boys named
- 1915260 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #300reached in 1914
- Change vs 2022
- +45.5%16 in 2025, from 11
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.
Pasquale in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Pasquale in Italian — same name
- Pascual in Spanish — related form
- Pascal in French — related form
- Pascoal in Portuguese — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey.
Pasquales among us
people named Pasquale are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 106,755 born in 2025 was named Pasquale
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Pasquale sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Pasquale beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Pasquale in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent and the word's journey across four languages is genuinely remarkable.
- It is standard in Italian, and its cousins are standard across the Romance languages.
- A documented saint and a coherent feast-naming tradition stand behind it.
- The Italian and American pronunciations differ in syllable count.
- It reads as distinctly Italian in English-speaking countries.
- It is period-coded to the early twentieth century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Pasquales are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,000 people named Pasquale are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Pasquale in 2025?
- Pasquale ranks #5608 among US boy names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Pasquale?
- About 1 in every 106,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Pasquale — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Pasquale with classmates?
- Pasquale will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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