Paschal

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Paschal is a surname, most frequently recorded in France, where it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: antipope.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 293◐
  • GPGuadeloupe1 in 328
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 410

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.3K ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
422 ●

1.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 10K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

PascalLatin · French●1.9M records
ปาสคาลThai · Thai●85 records
파스칼Hangul · Korean●0 records

Locally spelled Pascal in FR France, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 18 more and Pasca in IT Italy.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

antipope

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Paschal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#441,800,775712K rec.—308KPascal422
DE Germany#25093,03484K rec.——Pascal243
BE Belgium#2329,34029K rec.—284Pascal170
CH Switzerland#2119,12111K rec.—288Pascal134
CA Canada#58417,81514K rec.—3Pascal168
AT Austria#18116,5352.3K rec.—4.3KPascal105
GB United Kingdom—6,5526.7K rec.—listedPascal131
NG Nigeria—5,3709.6K rec.——Pascal76
AU Australia—4,1614.6K rec.—2Pascal123
US United States—3,457118K rec.1 in 96K6.1KPaschal298
TZ Tanzania#8933,0093K rec.—2Paschal38
GP Guadeloupe#311,88970 rec.—5Pascal21

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English58K76%
  • French3.3K4%
  • Swahili3.2K4%
  • Spanish2K3%
  • 1.8K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English57,88676%
French3,3254%
Swahili3,2414%
Spanish2,0093%
1,7882%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Paschal is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3.8K records spelled Paschal48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Philippines, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Pascual, Pascüal, Pàscual, Pascuál, Päscüäl

  • Greek surname242 records spelled Paschal2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States

    Also written Πασχαλ

  • Danish surname160 records spelled Paschal10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Iceland, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Paschalis

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

01020301950200021 · 1926

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Paschal in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1902–2024
Yearrecords
19025
19086
191213
191310
19149
191517
191617
191713
191818
191915
192017
192115
192219
192313
19249
192512
192621
192714
192818
192911
193012
19315
19325
193316
19348
19356
19366
19378
193813
194011
194110
19429
19438
194414
19458
19469
194711
19489
19497
195015
19529
195310
19567
19597
19608
19627
19636
19645
19655
19695
19706
19715
19736
19857
19935
20105
20167
20198
20217
20245

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 60 years between 1902–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Isaiah Addison Paschal, b. 1808Thomas M. Paschal, b. 1845Elizabeth Paschal O'Connor, b. 1853Ben Paschal, b. 1895Bill Paschal, b. 1921Jim Paschal, b. 1926Bobby Paschal, b. 1941Julien Paschal, b. 1977Marcus Paschal, b. 1984Fabien Paschal, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 42 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Paschal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020106.1K#5,709
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020006.1K#5,290
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020205.6K#5,941
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020490#20,056
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—404#20,543
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200874#19,616
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—56#27,178
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194150—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195148—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199137—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196135—

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 126 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Paschal?
We estimate roughly 6.3 thousand people bear Paschal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Paschal have the most bearers?
Paschal is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled pascal.
How common is Paschal compared with other names?
In France, Paschal is the 44th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
What does the name Paschal mean?
Recorded meaning: antipope
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Paschal” — the 44th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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