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Pascal
Pronounced /pæsˈkæl/
Rank in 2024
#2,747
Born in 2024
47
Peak year
2024 · #2747
Origin
Latin
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 47 boys were named Pascal, about 1 in every 36,496.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It first shows up in the records in 1889.
- 2,519 boys have been named Pascal since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Pascal per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 401 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 287 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 300 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 280 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 397 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 414 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 404 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
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. The programming language was named after French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).
- (countable) A male given name from Latin used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French.
- (countable) A surname transferred from the given name.
- Origin
- Latin
- Say it
- /pæsˈkæl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Pascal, CC BY-SA 4.0.