How rare is the name Pasquale?

6,834 people in the United States have the first name Pasquale, about 1 in 44,195. It ranks #3,182 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

PASQUALE

#3,182

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,834
About
1 in 44,195
This common or more
81.8%
Who bears it

Of the 6,834 people named Pasquale, 96.1% reported their origin as White and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Pasquale peaked in 1917, when 262 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18942025
Peak year
1917
Births that year
262
In 2025*
16 ▼94%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 10,138 babies have been given the name since 1894. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Pasquale by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #753. The largest share of babies named Pasquale, 37.3%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1890s#2,40838
1900s#1,265216
1910s#7531,829
1920s#8662,113
1930s#1,1191,202
1940s#1,3471,065
1950s#1,922768
1960s#1,969860
1970s#2,410691
1980s#3,480488
1990s#5,431350
2000s#8,544253
2010s#11,570177
2020s#12,68288
Before 19010.6%
Greatest Generation 1901–2737.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.8%
Baby boom 1946–6415.7%
Generation X 1965–8011.7%
Millennials 1981–966.8%
Generation Z 1997–123.9%
2013 and later2.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Pasquale is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Pasquale has been most common in Connecticut (10×), Rhode Island (7.8×), and New York (5.7×), and least common in Ohio (0.14×).

8,284 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Pasquale, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Pasquale ranks #9,326 of 156,621, with 3,351 people. See Pasquale as a last name

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