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Pascal

A Latin name meaning "relating to Easter," worn in Poland only by men: around 1,000 of them, and most Poles have never met one. Parents have all but stopped giving it, with none recorded last year.

Pascal Pronunciation

Pascal is pronounced PAHS-tsahl (/ˈpast͡sal/).

Alive in 2025
1,030
Newborns 2025
0
National rank
#947
Meaning & Origin

What Pascal means

Where Pascal comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Pascal begins in Latin, in the adjective paschalis, meaning relating to Easter. Behind that word stands Pascha, the Latin for Passover and later for the Christian feast, so the name marked a child by the season of his birth. A boy born in the days around Easter could be given it as a plain calendar fact.

France gave the name its strongest attachment. Blaise Pascal, born in 1623, was a mathematician and writer whose surname became one of the best known signatures in French thought. The forename moved with priests and settlers, and it kept its Latin sense wherever it landed. In Polish it reads as wielkanocny, Easter-related, the meaning intact.

Pascal has no diminutive, no softened variant to hide behind. On a Polish class register it sits as a foreign guest among the Piotrs and Jakubs. Say the name and you are back at paschalis, relating to Easter.

How many

How many people are named Pascal

1 in 20724 men in Poland is named Pascal. 1,030 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #947 among male names.

Living Pascals · 2019 → 2025
1,030 +178 since 2019
+22 2020
+30 2021
+26 2022
+30 2023
+38 2024
+32 2025
Trend

Pascal's popularity over time

0 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.

0 newborn Pascals in 2025
outside the national ranking that year
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Regions

Where Pascal is most popular

Pascal is most popular in Opole, 1150% above the national average (4 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+480%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+163%). It is least common in Masovian, 19% below average.

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Middle name

Pascal as a middle name

Pascal is a first name for 1,030 men in Poland and a middle name for another 343, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 378th, between Serafin (346) and Walery (338).

As a first name
1,030
As a middle name
343
first name · 75% middle name · 25%
Middle-name ranking · men

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