Paschalis
A Latin name meaning "of Easter". It stays very rare in Poland: only about 27 men carry it and no boys were given it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Paschalis Pronunciation
Paschalis is pronounced pahs-KHAH-lees (/pasˈxalis/).
What Paschalis means
Where Paschalis comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Paschalis begins with a Latin adjective, paschalis, meaning relating to Easter. Behind it stands Pascha, the Latin word for Easter, borrowed in turn from Hebrew pesach, the Passover. A child given this name was tied to a date on the church calendar. In the early centuries it went most often to boys born in the Easter season.
The name travelled with the Church. Several popes took it. Paschal I and Paschal II both signed themselves Paschalis in their Latin documents. Later Paschal Baylon, a Spanish Franciscan of the sixteenth century, carried it into Catholic memory. His feast falls on 17 May, and that day serves as the imieniny for anyone named Paschalis.
In a Polish class register the name looks formal, almost archaic, beside a Marek or a Tomasz. Its meaning stays fixed all the same. Paschalis still means wielkanocny, relating to Easter.
When Paschalis celebrates name day
Paschalis appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 11 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Paschalis
1 in 790600 men in Poland is named Paschalis. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8141 among male names.
Paschalis as a middle name
Paschalis is a first name for 27 men in Poland and a middle name for another 42, a 39/61 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1222nd, between Nabil (42) and Renard (42).
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#1220 Iván42
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#1221 Nabil42
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#1222 Paschalis42
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#1223 Renard42
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#1224 Sébastien42