Pasqualina
Feminine · “Of Easter”
Pasqualina is the Italian feminine of Pasquale, the name for a child born at Easter, with the tender -ina ending that Italian uses for small and dear things. Its family has a sharp side too: a battered statue called Pasquino gave English the word pasquinade.
How old is the name Pasqualina?
Pasqualina first appears in US birth records in 1908 — 117 years ago. The typical Pasqualina alive today was born around 1922, making them about 103 years old. About 100 people named Pasqualina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Pasqualina most popular?
Pasqualina peaked in 1911, reaching #1171 nationally. See the whole 1911 chart.
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Where it comes from
From pascha to Pasqualina
The story of Pasqualina
Italian families gave Pasquale and Pasqualina to children born around Easter, and the names were especially common in the south. In 1501 an ancient, badly damaged statue was set up at a corner in Rome and nicknamed Pasquino, and Romans began pinning anonymous verses mocking popes and princes to it; the practice gave English the word pasquinade, a public satire. A German nun, Sister Pascalina Lehnert, ran the household of Eugenio Pacelli from his years as papal envoy in Munich through his reign as Pius XII until his death in 1958, and was known in Rome, not entirely kindly, as La Popessa. Italian emigrants brought Pasqualina to America early in the twentieth century.
Meaning
Of Easter
From Italian Pasqua, 'Easter', from Latin pascha and ultimately the Hebrew name for Passover.
How the name formed
- pascha
- Pasqua
- Pasquale
- Pasqualina
Related forms: Pasqualina · Pascalina · Pascuala · Pascaline
Pronouncing Pasqualina
pahs-kwah-LEE-nah
Five syllables in Italian, with the stress on the fourth.
Nicknames for Pasqualina
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
- 1908
- Most girls named
- 191940 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1171reached in 1911
- Change vs 1975
- +20.0%6 in 2015, from 5
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.
Pasqualina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Pasqualina in Italian — same name
- Pascalina in German — spelling variant
- Pascuala in Spanish — related form
- Pascaline in French — related form
Pasqualinas among us
people named Pasqualina 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
Pasqualina 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, documented meaning tied to a major feast.
- Rooted in Italian family tradition, with Lina as an easy everyday form.
- Very rare in America, so a Pasqualina is unlikely to meet another.
- Five syllables is long, and most Pasqualinas are called Lina day to day.
- Outside Italian families it will need both spelling and pronouncing.
- It reads as an old-country name to many Italian Americans, which some families love.
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- How many Pasqualinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 100 people named Pasqualina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Pasqualina is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Pasqualina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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