Pascal

Where Pascal comes from

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).
— Wiktionary's entry for Pascal
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #878 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #822
    14 babies named Pascal — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1911
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,387.
  4. 1942
    Pascal Couchepin born
    member of the Swiss Federal Council
  5. 1991
    Pascal Groß born
    German footballer
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French.
Namesakes
  • Pascal Groß · German footballer, born 1991
  • Pascal Couchepin · member of the Swiss Federal Council, born 1942
  • Pascal Lissouba · First President of the Republic of the Congo, 1931–2020
  • Pascal Quignard · French writer, born 1948
  • Pascal Lamy · French businessman and political advisor, born 1947

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.